The decoupling of electronic orbital angular momentum from the molecular axis in a1S+1P atom-atom collision
- 14 May 1981
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 14 (9) , 1449-1464
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/14/9/010
Abstract
The decoupling of electronic orbital angular momentum from the molecular axis in atom-atom collisions is described as a case of rotational coupling between molecular states of different symmetry. For a system A(1S)+B(1P) with not too large an impact parameter, the corresponding semiclassical equations are solved. Explicit predictions are made about the polarisation of the 1P wavefunction from a typical inelastic collision process, that is a process which proceeds through a single molecular state, Sigma or Pi , at small internuclear distance.Keywords
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