Quantum Monte Carlo estimators for the positron-electron annihilation rate in bound and low-energy scattering states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 227011-227018

  Chiesa, Simone ^a   Mella, Massimo ^b   Morosi, Gabriele ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FUNCTIONS; GROUND STATE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONS; POSITRONS;

LOW ENERGY SCATTERING STATES; MONOCHROMATIC POSITRON BEAMS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 1942508040     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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