Dissipative quantum dynamics in 2D: anisotropic dissipation and selective bond breaking in surface photochemistry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1805-1808

  Gao, Shiwu ^a   Strömquist, Johan ^a   Lundqvist, B I ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CHEMICAL BONDS; DESORPTION; DISSOCIATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HAMILTONIANS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ANISOTROPIC DISSIPATION; DISSIPATIVE QUANTUM DYNAMICS; SELECTIVE BOND BREAKING; SURFACE PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 14344284343     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1805     Document Type: Article

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