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Published February 1, 1975 | Published
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Semiclassical collision theory. Application of multidimensional uniform approximations to the atom-rigid-rotor system

Abstract

The multidimensional Bessel and Airy uniform approximations developed earlier in this series for the semiclassical S matrix are applied to the atom rigid−rotor system. The need is shown for (a) using a geoemetrical criterion for determining whether a stationary phase point (s.p.pt) is a maximum, minimum, or saddle point; (b) choosing a proper quadrilateral configuration of the s.p.pts. with the phases as nearly equal as possible; and (c) choosing a unit cell to favor near−separation of variables. (a) and (b) apply both to the Airy and to the Bessel uniform approximations, and (c) to the Bessel. The use of a contour plot both to understand and to facilitate the search in new cases is noted. The case of real and complex−valued stationary phase points is also considered, and the Bessel uniform−in−pairs approximation is applied. Comparison is made with exact quantum results. As in the one−dimensional case, the Bessel is an improvement over the Airy for ''k = 0'' transitions, while for other transitions they give similar results. Comparison in accuracy with the results of the integral method is also given. As a whole, the agreement can be considered to be reasonable. The improvement of the present over various more approximate results is shown.

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© 1975 American Institute of Physics. Received 26 September 1974. Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

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