Practical implementation of the instanton theory. II. Decay of metastable state through tunneling

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 117, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 10081-10087

  Mil'nikov, Gennady V ^a,c   Nakamura, Hiroki ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF STRUCTURAL MACROKINETICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

DECAY RATE; ENERGY SPLITTING; INSTANTON THEORY; METASTABLE STATE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL TUNNELING;

GROUND STATE;

EID: 0037045158     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1520532     Document Type: Article

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