Basic matrix elements for level shifts and widths of hydrogenic levels in ion-surface interactions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 1487-1499

  Kurpick P ^a   Thumm, U ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; IONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SURFACES;

CONDUCTION BAND; ENERGY SHIFT; FINAL CHANNEL DISTORTION MATRIX ELEMENT; INITIAL CHANNEL TRANSFER MATRIX ELEMENT; ION METAL SURFACE SCATTERING THEORY; JENNINGS POTENTIALS; ONE ELECTRON MATRIX ELEMENTS; QUANTUM NUMBERS; SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS; SURFACE POTENTIALS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0030211571     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.1487     Document Type: Article

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