Published February 18, 1985 | Version v1
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Collisions in the classical limit: The vanishing-potential theorem

Creators

  • 1. Department of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel and Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Route 22 East, Clinton Township, Annandale, New Jersey 08801

Description

It is shown that in a collision between any two aggregates of particles the points of stationary phase for the scattering amplitude lie on the hypersurface determined by the condition that the potential energy of the interaction between the two aggregates vanishes

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Volume
54
Journal Issue
7
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
611-613
ISSN
0031-9007

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
16055517
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
COLLISIONS; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SCATTERING; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES
Descriptors DEC
AMPLITUDES; ENERGY; FUNCTIONS