A quantum mechanical model of vibrational-electronic energy exchange during collisions

15 February 1982

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics

Vol. 76 (4) , 1859-1868
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.443158

Abstract

A model for the interchange of energy between an electronic and a vibrational mode during a collinear atom–molecule collision is proposed. Although crude, the model is simple enough to be solved exactly using the R‐matrix propagator method for treating quantum close‐coupling problems. These exact results can be compared to semiclassical and approximate treatments of the same problem. Several interesting features of the model system are discussed in terms of elementary energy transfer concepts.

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