Zero-energy bound or quasibound states and their implications for diatomic systems with an asymptotic van der Waals interaction

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 050702-050701

  Gao, Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESONANCE; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

DIATOMIC SYSTEMS; QUANTUM DEFECT THEORY; QUASIBOUND STATES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 4243277017     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.62.050702     Document Type: Article

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