Determination of the He-He, Ne-Ne, Ar-Ar, and H$_{2}$ interaction potential by wave function imaging
Atomic Physics
2018-08-29 v1
Abstract
We report on a direct method to measure the internuclear potential energy curve of diatomic systems. A COLTRIMS reaction microscope was used to measure the squares of the vibrational wave functions of H, He, Ne, and Ar. The Schr\"odinger equation relates the curvature of the wave function to the potential V(R) and therefore offers a simple but elegant way to extract the shape of the potential.
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@article{arxiv.1802.02787,
title = {Determination of the He-He, Ne-Ne, Ar-Ar, and H$_{2}$ interaction potential by wave function imaging},
author = {S. Zeller and M. Kunitski and J. Voigtsberger and M. Waitz and F. Trinter and S. Eckart and A. Kalinin and A. Czasch and L. Ph. H. Schmidt and T. Weber and M. Schöffler and T. Jahnke and R. Dörner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.02787},
year = {2018}
}
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15 pages with 4 figures