MODE MIXING AND CHAOS INDUCED BY POTENTIAL SURFACE CROSSINGS

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作者
HELLER, EJ [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA,INST THEORET PHYS,SANTA BARBARA,CA 93106
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10.1063/1.458054
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
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The effect of Born-Oppenheimer potential energy surface crossings on energy transfer in polyatomic molecules is investigated, classically and quantum mechanically. The hopping from one energy surface to another is enough to cause classical chaos, and strong mixing of the levels quantum mechanically. The rate of classical mixing determines the extent of quantum mixing, even though classical mixing is complete at long times. © 1990 American Institute of Physics.
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页码:1718 / 1727
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