Quantum reactive scattering in three dimensions: using tangent-sphere coordinates to smoothly transform from hyperspherical to Jacobi regions

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 957-970

  Parker, Gregory A ^a   Keil, Mark ^a   Morrison, Michael A ^a   Crocchianti, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

JACOBI COORDINATES; KINETIC ENERGY OPERATORS; QUANTUM REACTIVE SCATTERING; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; TANGENT SPHERE COORDINATES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034226462     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.481876     Document Type: Article

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