Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.512, No.4-6, 161-166, 2011
Product rotational alignment in NO(X) plus Kr collisions
Quantum mechanical (QM) close-coupling calculations have been used to study fully quantum state-resolved product differential rotational alignment in collisions of NO(X (2)Pi(1/2), v = 0, j = 0.5, f) + Kr at a collision energy of 500 cm(-1), using the most recent ab initio potential energy surface of Wen et al. [12]. We show that fully quantum state-resolved differential alignment exhibits a noticeable parity-dependent behavior. The results are discussed and compared with previous experimental and theoretical studies on NO(X) + He/Ar inelastic scattering at similar collision energies. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.