Wigner's dynamical transition state theory in phase space: Classical and quantum

Nonlinearity

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Waalkens, Holger ^a,b   Schubert, Roman ^a   Wiggins, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/21/1/R01     Document Type: Article

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