Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Py3BR: A software for computing atomic three-body recombination rates

  • Stony Brook University
  • Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

7 Scopus citations

Abstract

The three-body recombination reaction, or ternary association, is a termolecular reaction leading to a molecule after a three-body encounter that plays a vital role in many relevant scenarios in chemical physics. Here, we introduce the Python 3-Body Recombination program, which is dedicated to the computation of atomic three-body recombination rate coefficients. The software is based on a classical trajectory approach in hyperspherical coordinates after mapping the three-body problem as a single particle in a higher-dimensional space. This theoretical approach is fully general and applicable to any ion-atom-atom or atom-atom-atom three-body process. The predictive power of the methodology has been tested in several different experimental scenarios, reaching a good description of every system. The code structure is presented alongside examples and tests to ensure the software's capacity. In addition, the performance of the software after parallelization is shown.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1505-1514
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Computational Chemistry
Volume45
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 30 2024

Keywords

  • Classical Reaction Dynamics
  • Termolecular Reactions
  • Three-Body Recombination

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Py3BR: A software for computing atomic three-body recombination rates'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this