Grid-based methods for diatomic quantum scattering problems. III. Double photoionization of molecular hydrogen in prolate spheroidal coordinates

Journal Article · Sun Aug 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.82.023423· OSTI ID:21448540

Tao, Liang; Rescigno, T N ^[1]; McCurdy, C W ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

Our previously developed finite-element discrete-variable representation in prolate spheroidal coordinates is extended to two-electron systems with a study of double ionization of H{sub 2} with fixed nuclei. Particular attention is paid to the development of fast and accurate methods for treating the electron-electron interaction. The use of exterior complex scaling in the implementation offers a simple way of enforcing Coulomb boundary conditions for the electronic double continuum. While the angular distributions calculated in this study are found to be completely consistent with our earlier treatments that employed single-center expansions in spherical coordinates, we find that the magnitude of the integrated cross sections are sensitive to small changes in the initial-state wave function. The present formulation offers significant advantages with respect to convergence and efficiency and opens the way to calculations on more complicated diatomic targets.

• OSTI ID: 21448540
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Vol. 82, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.023423; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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INTEGRAL CROSS SECTIONS
MOLECULES
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