Semiclassical and quasiclassical calculation of reaction probabilities for collinear X + F₂→XF + F (X = Mu, H, D, T)

Abstract

Semiclassical calculations of reaction probabilities have been carried out for the collinear H + F₂ (n = 0, 1) reaction using the best extended LEPS surface No. II of Jonathan et al. Both real and complex valued classical trajectories have been included in the calculations for an energy range where the quasiclassical total reaction probability is unity. Comparison with quantum results shows the semiclassical reaction probabilities are accurate to about ± 0·05 provided only two real or complex stationary phase points make an important contribution to the S matrix element, so that the uniform Airy or integer Bessel approximations are valid. Real semiclassical calculations are also reported for the collinear Mu, D, T + F₂ (n = 0) reactions. For the D and T reactions, the semiclassical reaction probabilities are estimated to be accurate to ± 0·05, except close to the reaction threshold, but for the Mu reaction the estimated errors are much larger. In addition, quasiclassical calculations for the reaction probabilities have been carried out using half integer boxing and smooth sampling methods to quantize the product distributions. For the H + F₂ reaction, there are usually systematic deviations from the quantum reaction probabilities and the same is expected to be true for the Mu, D and T reactions.