Semiclassical description of diffraction and its quenching by the forward-backward version of the initial value representation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 2572-2579

  Gelabert, Ricard ^a   Giménez, Xavier ^a   Thoss, Michael ^a,b   Wang, Haobin ^a   Miller, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUENCHING;

QUANTUM COHERENCE EFFECTS; SEMICLASSICAL INITIAL VALUE REPRESENTATION (SC-IVR);

QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA;

EID: 0343113359     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1337803     Document Type: Article

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