Theory of Semiclassical Transition Probabilities (S Matrix) for Inelastic and Reactive Collisions. Uniformization with Elastic Collision Trajectories
- 1 April 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 56 (7) , 3548-3550
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1677730
Abstract
A canonical transformation is described for uniformizing the coordinates used in Paper I of this series. For comparison with the results of Paper III, which based a uniformization on exact trajectories, the present article describes one based on elastic collision trajectories. The question of invariance of S‐matrix elements with respect to semiclassical unitary transformations is also discussed.Keywords
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