A numerical simulation of nonadiabatic electron excitation in the strong field regime: Linear polyenes

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 109, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 5176-5185

  Smith, Stanley M ^a   Li, Xiaosong ^b   Markevitch, Alexei N ^c   Romanov, Dmitri A ^c   Levis, Robert J ^c   Bernhard Schlegel, H ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON EXCITATION; LASER FIELDS; LINEAR POLYENES; NONADIABATIC ELECTRON EXCITATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IONIZATION; LASERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS;

EID: 21744446867     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp050968n     Document Type: Article

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