Effect of the geometric phase on nuclear dynamics at a conical intersection: Extension of a recent topological approach from one to two coupled surfaces

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 129, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Althorpe, Stuart C ^a   Stecher, Thomas ^a   Bouakline, Foudhil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; INTERSECTIONS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; POPULATION STATISTICS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TOPOLOGY; WIND POWER;

CONICAL INTERSECTIONS; COUPLED DYNAMICS; FEYNMAN PATHS; NUCLEAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR WAVE FUNCTIONS; PATH INTEGRALS; POPULATION TRANSFERS; REACTION PATHS; SIMPLE TOPOLOGIES; TOPOLOGICAL APPROACHES;

WAVE FUNCTIONS;

EID: 57349196786     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3031215     Document Type: Article

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