An effective Hamiltonian for the short-time dynamics at a conical intersection

Molecular Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 5-7, 2006, Pages 1081-1093

  Burghardt, Irene ^a   Gindensperger, Etienne ^b   Cederbaum, Lorenz S ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conical intersection; Effective Hamiltonian; Short time dynamics

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; VECTORS;

CONICAL INTERSECTION; EFFECTIVE HAMILTONIAN; SHORT-TIME DYNAMICS;

HAMILTONIANS;

EID: 33645785050     PISSN: 00268976     EISSN: 13623028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00268970500417887     Document Type: Article

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