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Energy sudden dissociative collisions: Structure and applications of factorization relations
The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • D. K. Chan, Iowa State University
  • David K. Hoffman, Iowa State University
  • James W. Evans, Iowa State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1-1-1985
DOI
10.1063/1.448369
Abstract
In the energy sudden (ES) approximation for nonreactive molecular collisions,there exist factorization relations by which an arbitrary T‐matrix element can be predicted as a spectroscopic linear combination of those out of some other, input state. These were first discovered for ground state input but this restriction was later removed. This general form of the spectroscopicfactorization relations is straightforwardly extended here to ES dissociativecollisions. One finds that in predicting dissociation amplitudes out of some state, it is necessary to use input data out of a higher (energy) bound state. Thus ground state factorization relations cannot be used. The structure of two natural forms of the factorization relation coefficients (equivalent by virtue of ES consistency conditions among T‐matrix elements out of a single state) are analyzed in detail for a collinear atom‐truncated square‐well diatomic oscillatorsystem. Relevance of these results to the prediction of (dissociative) state specific vibrational enhancement/inhibition is discussed.
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This article is published as Chan, C. K., D. K. Hoffman, and J. W. Evans. "Energy sudden dissociative collisions: Structure and applications of factorization relations." The Journal of chemical physics 82, no. 4 (1985): 1855-1865, doi:10.1063/1.448369. Posted with permission.

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American Institute of Physics
Language
en
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application/pdf
Citation Information
D. K. Chan, David K. Hoffman and James W. Evans. "Energy sudden dissociative collisions: Structure and applications of factorization relations" The Journal of Chemical Physics Vol. 82 Iss. 4 (1985) p. 1855 - 1865
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/james-evans/171/