Competing tunneling trajectories in a two-dimensional potential with variable topology as a model for quantum bifurcations

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2 2, 2003, Pages 261021-2610210

  Benderskii, V A ^a   Vetoshkin, E V ^a   Kats, E I ^b,c   Trommsdorff, H P ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROBLEMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^c LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; QUANTUM THEORY; TOPOLOGY;

SADDLE POINTS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 4243487526     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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