Beyond universality: Parametrizing ultracold complex-mediated reactions using statistical assumptions

Abstract

We have calculated accurate quantum reactive and elastic cross sections for the prototypical barrierless reaction D++H2(v=0,j=0) using a modified hyperspherical scattering method. The considered kinetic energy ranges from the ultracold to the Langevin regimes. A reaction rate coefficient practically constant in no less than eight orders of magnitude is obtained. The availability of accurate results for this system allows one to test the quantum theory by Jachymski et al. [K. Jachymski, M. Krych, P. S. Julienne, and Z. Idziaszek, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 213202 (2013)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.110.213202] in a nonuniversal case. The short-range reaction probability is rationalized using statistical model assumptions and related to a statistical factor. This provides a means to estimate one of the parameters that characterizes ultracold processes from first principles.