https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2020-10138-0
Regular Article
The role of spin–orbit effects in the mobility of N+ ions moving in a helium gas at low temperature★,★★
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Laboratoire de Physique des Rayonnements et leurs Interactions avec la Matière, Batna 1 University, Batna 05000, Algeria
2
School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
3
Laboratoire de Physique des Rayonnements, Badji Mokhtar University, B. P. 12, Annaba 23000, Algeria
a e-mail: KnowlesPJ@Cardiff.ac.uk
Received:
5
March
2020
Received in final form:
3
June
2020
Published online:
23
July
2020
The mobility of N+ ions in ground-state helium gas at very low temperature is examined with explicit inclusion of spin–orbit coupling effects. The ionic kinetics is treated theoretically with the three-temperature model. The N+–He interaction potentials, including spin–orbit coupling, are determined using high-level ab initio calculations. Then, the classical and quantal transport cross sections, both needed in the computation of the mobility coefficients, are calculated in terms of the collisional energy of the N+–He system. The numerical results, at temperature 4.3 K, show the spin–orbit interactions have negligible effect on the mobility coefficients.
Key words: Atomic and Molecular Collisions
Electronic Supplementary Information (ESI) available: All the data points derived from the ab initio potentials of the ground N+–He molecular states, without and with the spin–orbit (SO) effects.
Supplementary material in the form of one pdf file available from the Journal web page at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2020-10138-0.
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