title: A quantum wave packet dynamics study of the N(2D) + H2 reaction.
abstract: We report a dynamics study of the reaction N((2)D) + H(2) (v=0, j=0-5) --> NH + H using the time-dependent quantum wave packet method and a recently reported single-sheeted double many-body expansion potential energy surface for NH(2)(1(2)A' ') which has been modeled from accurate ab initio multireference configuration-interaction calculations. The calculated probabilities for (v=0, j=0-5) are shown to display resonance structures, a feature also visible to some extent in the calculated total cross sections for (v=0, j=0). A comparison between the calculated centrifugal-sudden and coupled-channel reaction probabilities validate the former approximation for the title system. Rate constants calculated using a uniform J-shifting scheme and averaged over a Boltzmann distribution of rotational states are shown to be in good agreement with the available experimental values. Comparisons with other theoretical results are also made.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China.
authors.forename: Tian-Shu
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: Ke-Li
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: António J C
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Varandas