Uniform approximation of wave functions with improved semiclassical transformation amplitudes and Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Davis, Edward D ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

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Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); THEOREM PROVING;

ANGULAR FREQUENCY; ORTHOGONALIZATION; SEMICLASSICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

WAVE EFFECTS;

EID: 19644401553     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.032101     Document Type: Article

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