Determination of the bond length and binding energy of the helium dimer by diffraction from a transmission grating

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2284-2287

  Grisenti, R E ^a   Schollkopf W ^a   Toennies, J P ^a   Hegerfeldt, G C ^b   Kohler T ^b   Stoll, M ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; CHEMICAL BONDS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HELIUM; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTUM THEORY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

CLUSTER BEAM DIFFRACTION APPARATUS; SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS; TRANSMISSION GRATING;

MOLECULAR BEAMS;

EID: 0342521616     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2284     Document Type: Article

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