Dynamic bottlenecks and the extreme stability of high Rydberg states

ACH - Models in Chemistry

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 619-636

  Remacle, Françoise ^a   Levine, Raphael D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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