Hund's paradox and the collisional stabilization of chiral molecules
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 023202 (2009)
Abstract: We identify the dominant collisional decoherence mechanism which serves to stabilize and super-select the configuration states of chiral molecules. A high-energy description of this effect is compared to the results of the exact molecular scattering problem, obtained by solving the coupled-channel equations. It allows to predict the experimental conditions for observing the collisional suppression of the tunneling dynamics between the left-handed and the right-handed configuration of D
2S
2 molecules.
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