Quantum scattering with energy-filtered plane wave packets: Visualizing the F + HD "ridge" mechanism

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 107, Issue 37, 2003, Pages 7152-7160

  Althorpe, Stuart C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY-DOMAIN WAVE FUNCTION; ENERGY-FILTERED PLANE WAVE PACKETS; QUANTUM SCATTERING;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0141794020     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp0303671     Document Type: Article

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