Quasimolecular States Responsible for Quantum-Mechanical Phase Interference in Low-Energy ${Na}^{+}$ -Ne Inelastic Collisions

27 October 1975

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 35 (17), 1175-1178
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.35.1175

Abstract

A simple model is presented which affords an unambiguous and quantitative determination of the quasimolecular states responsible for the striking oscillatory structure in the energy dependence of the polarization components of total cross sections for optical emission due to low-energy

{Na}^{+}

-Ne collisions. The

{}^{1}Π (Ω = \pm 1)

and

{}^{3}Π (Ω = \pm 2)

states are identified as the major participants in the quantum-mechanical phase-interference process and not the simple single-electron diabatic states as believed previously.

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Quasimolecular States Responsible for Quantum-Mechanical Phase Interference in Low-Energy ${Na}^{+}$ -Ne Inelastic Collisions