Nonlinear dynamical behavior of a hydrogen molecular ion and similar three-body Coulomb systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 238-244

  Duan, Yiwu ^a   Browne, Charles ^a   Yuan, Jian Min ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HYDROGEN; IONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTONS;

BORN-OPPENHEIMER APPROXIMATION; COULOMB SYSTEMS; ELECTRON TRAJECTORY; HYDROGEN MOLECULAR ION; PHASE SPACE STRUCTURES; POINCARE SURFACE OF SECTION;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0032620320     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.238     Document Type: Article

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