Coherence and Correlations in Fast Ion-atom Collisions
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Release | : 1987 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:727294740 |
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Download or read book Coherence and Correlations in Fast Ion-atom Collisions written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper focusses on the description, classification and interpretation of coherent excitation of atomic or ionic systems with Coulombic two-body final state interactions. A group-theoretical approach is used to classify and interpret coherent excitation. The most significant result is that the state of excitation represented by a density operator can be mapped one to one onto expectation values of a set of operators. Examples are used to illustrate what can be learned about the collision process from investigations of coherent excitation. (JDH).