Quantum defect theory with deeply closed channels
- 22 June 2000
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Vol. 33 (13) , 2511-2523
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/33/13/311
Abstract
We address the validity and practicality of using multi-channel quantum defect theory (MQDT) to treat electron-ion collision problems for cases where some channel solutions propagate with extremely negative, classically forbidden, energies. We discuss theoretically and demonstrate numerically, within an unrealistically sensitive model-problem study, how MQDT results can be obtained which are in agreement with those obtained from the more standard non-MQDT method at all energies.Keywords
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