Wave-packet scattering without kinematic entanglement: Convergence of expectation values

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 8-13

  Schulman, Lawrence S ^a   Schulman, Leonard J ^b  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group theory; Quantum theory; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; FUNCTIONS; KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; SCATTERING;

DERIVATION; GAUSSIAN WAVE FUNCTIONS; GROUP THEORY; WAVE PACKETS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 12844255060     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2004.840141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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