Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.103, No.49, 10333-10342, 1999
Optimized imploding waves in the coherent control of biomolecular processes: Atom-rotor scattering
Sculpting the incoming wave in bimolecular scattering by varying its partial wave content is shown to provide an effective means of controlling the cross sections; for bimolecular collisions. Applications to Ar + H-2 and Ar + HD, treated as atom-rigid rotor scattering, show;enhancement factors of the outgoing flux for a selected rotational transition of more than an order of magnitude.