Singular nonadiabatic coupling at intersections of potential-energy surfaces by infinite-order perturbation theory

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Dufey, Florian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HAMILTONIANS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBABILITY; SURFACES;

BORN-OPPENHEIMER APPROXIMATION; ELECTRONIC STATES; INFINITE-ORDER PERTURBATION THEORY; SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS;

EID: 0242694872     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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