Reactive collisions of Ca+ ion with H2 molecule play a crucial role in ultracold chemistry, quantum information and other cutting-edge fields, and have been widely concerned experimentally, but the corresponding...

The LiNa2 reactive system has recently received great attention in the experimental study of ultracold chemical reactions, but the corresponding theoretical calculations have not been carried out. Here, we report the first globally accurate ground-state LiNa2 potential energy surface (PES) using a Gaussian process model based on only 1776 actively selected high-level ab initio training points. The constructed PES had high precision and strong generalization capability. On the new PES, the quantum dynamics calculations on the Li(2S) + Na2(v = 0, j = 0) → LiNa + Na reaction were carried out in the 0.001–0.01 eV collision energy range using an improved time-dependent wave packet method. The calculated results indicate that this reaction is dominated by a complex-forming mechanism at low collision energies. The presented dynamics data provide guidance for experimental research, and the newly constructed PES could be further used for ultracold reaction dynamics calculations on this reactive system.

Coriolis coupling plays a crucial role in reactive scattering, but dynamics calculations including the complete Coriolis coupling significantly increase the difficulty of numerical evolution due to the corresponding expensive matrix...