Collisional breakup in a quantum system of three charged particles

Science

Volumn 286, Issue 5449, 1999, Pages 2474-2479

  Rescigno, T N ^a   Baertschy, M ^b   Isaacs, W A ^c   McCurdy, C W ^b,c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; IONIZATION; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0033601353     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5449.2474     Document Type: Article

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28. This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under contract numbers W-7405-Eng-48 and DE-AC03-76SF00098, respectively. The calculations were performed on the SGI/Cray T3E computer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and the IBM Blue-Pacific computer at LLNL. We thank X. Li at NERSC for providing us with her parallel LU factorization libraries for complex sparse matrices.