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Comment on ''Semiclassical treatment of vibrational--translational energy transfer in the near-adiabatic approximation''

Journal Article · · J. Chem. Phys., v. 63, no. 12, pp. 5505-5506
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.431293· OSTI ID:4109247
Recently a near-adiabatic (perturbed stationary states) approximation was used in an investigation the collinear vibrational excitation of a harmonic oscillator. This approximation reduced the problem to that of obtaining transition probabilities for a harmonic oscillator with time-dependent forcing function. Cady derived an apparently exact solution for this problem. It is shown that this solution is not exact but that the solution results from making a further adiabatic approximation and a derivation is given that clearly shows the adiabatic character of this further approximation. (AIP)
Research Organization:
Department of Chemistry, Indiana-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46205
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
NSA Number:
NSA-33-015685
OSTI ID:
4109247
Journal Information:
J. Chem. Phys., v. 63, no. 12, pp. 5505-5506, Journal Name: J. Chem. Phys., v. 63, no. 12, pp. 5505-5506; ISSN JCPSA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English