Mesoscopic superposition and sub-Planck-scale structure in molecular wave packets

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Ghosh, Suranjana ^a   Chiruvelli, Aravind ^b   Banerji, J ^a   Panigrahi, P K ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; QUANTUM THEORY; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

MESOSCOPIC SUPERPOSITION; MORSE POTENTIAL; PHASE-SPACE DYNAMICS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 33144456136     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.013411     Document Type: Article

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