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Variation Procedure for Multichannel Scattering Processes

John H. Weare* and Everett Thiele

  • Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

  • *Sonneborn Fellow.
  • Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.

Phys. Rev. 167, 11 – Published 5 March, 1968

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.167.11

Abstract

We present a variation iteration procedure for nonreactive multichannel scattering processes. Its essential features include the expansion of the trial function in terms of the eigenfunctions of a zeroth-order Hamiltonian; the use of the zeroth-order Green's function to impose the correct outgoing behavior on the trial function; and further improvement of the transition matrix element by iteration. The procedure is applied to a problem in atomic-molecular energy exchange.

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