Complex trajectories sans isochrones: Quantum barrier scattering with rectilinear constant velocity trajectories

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 127, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Rowland, Brad A ^a   Wyatt, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ISOCHRONES; QUANTUM BARRIERS; TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 36049015736     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2790006     Document Type: Article

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