Articles you may be interested inTime-dependent quantum wave packet study of the Ar+H2 +→ArH++H reaction on a new ab initio potential energy surface for the ground electronic state (12 A′) Time-dependent quantum mechanical calculations on H+O 2 for total angular momentum J>0. III. Total cross sectionsThe HϩO 2 →OHϩO reaction has been studied for total angular momentum JϾ0 with a time-dependent wave packet method using the Coriolis coupled method of Goldfield and Gray ͓E. M. Goldfield and S. K. Gray, Comp. Phys. Commun. 98, 1 ͑1996͔͒ on parallel computers. Helicity conserving ͑HC͒ and coupled channel ͑CC͒ calculations were performed for Jϭ1, Jϭ2, Jϭ5, and Jϭ10 using two different embeddings for the body fixed coordinate system to investigate the importance of Coriolis coupling for this reactive system. If the H-O 2 distance is taken to be the z axis of the coordinate system, we find poor agreement between the HC and the CC calculations for JϾ2. When the O 2 bond is taken to be the z axis, we find good agreement between the CC and HC calculations at low J. For higher J the agreement gets progressively worse, especially at higher energies. We can explain these results using a classical model from a previous paper on HϩO 2 ͓A. J. H. M. Meijer and E. M. Goldfield, J. Chem. Phys. 108, 5404 ͑1998͔͒.