Nonadiabatic transitions in multilevel systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 062104-062101

  Wilkinson, Michael ^a   Morgan, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; TOPOLOGY;

MULTILEVEL SYSTEMS; NONADIABATIC TRANSITIONS; STOKES LINES; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0033685783     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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