Role of symmetry in strong-field ionization of molecules

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Kjeldsen, T K ^a   Bisgaard, C Z ^a   Madsen, L B ^a   Stapelfeldt, H ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BENZENE; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON EMISSION; ETHYLENE; GROUND STATE; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULES; PHOTONS; VECTORS;

ELECTRON ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS; HARTREE-FOCK WAVE FUNCTION; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; MOLECULAR GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR ONE-ELECTRON WAVE FUNCTIONS; PHOTOELECTRONS; TIME-INDEPENDENT FORMAL SCATTERING THEORY;

IONIZATION;

EID: 1142292301     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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