CALCULATION OF SPIN-DEPENDENT OBSERVABLES IN ELECTRON-SODIUM SCATTERING USING THE COUPLED-CHANNEL OPTICAL METHOD

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作者
BRAY, I
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[1] Electronic Structure of Materials Centre, School of Physical Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1908
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We present calculations of the 3(2)S and 3(2)P spin asymmetries and L(perpendicular-to) for singlet and triplet scattering for projectile energies of 10 and 20 eV. Together these observables give a most stringent test of any electron-atom scattering theory. We find excellent agreement between the results of our coupled-channel optical method and experiment, which for the spin asymmetries can only be obtained by a good description of the couplings between the lower-lying target states and the target continuum.
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