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Title: Revised Born-Oppenheimer approach and a reprojection method for inelastic collisions

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Department of Theoretical Physics, Herzen University, St. Petersburg 191186 (Russian Federation) and Department of Chemistry, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', I-00185 Rome (Italy)

The quantum reprojection method within the standard adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer approach is derived for multielectron collision systems. The method takes nonvanishing asymptotic nonadiabatic couplings into account and distinguishes asymptotic currents in molecular-state channels and in atomic-state channels. The method is demonstrated for the example of low-energy inelastic Li + Na collisions for which the conventional application of the standard adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer approach fails and leads to paradoxes such as infinite inelastic cross sections.

OSTI ID:
21528795
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 82, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.060701; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English