Low-energy limit for tunnelling subject to an Eckart potential barrier

Molecular Physics

Volumn 108, Issue 7-9, 2010, Pages 1133-1143

  Lipoff, Samuel H ^a   Herschbach, Dudley R ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dressed potentials; Eckart potential barrier; Low energy tunnelling limit; Ultracold collision theory

Indexed keywords

BORN-OPPENHEIMER; ECKART BARRIER; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS; LOW ENERGIES; LOW-ENERGY LIMIT; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; POTENTIAL CURVES; POTENTIAL SURFACES; QUANTUM SCATTERING; RATE COEFFICIENTS; ROVIBRATIONAL STATE; ULTRA-COLD; ULTRACOLD COLLISIONS; WAVE COLLISION;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77952942185     PISSN: 00268976     EISSN: 13623028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00268971003662912     Document Type: Article

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