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Molecular dynamics at an energy-level crossing

Mathematical Physics 2018-12-21 v1 math.MP

Abstract

This paper is a continuation of a previous work about the study of the survival probability modelizing the molecular predissociation in the Born-Oppenheimer framework. Here we consider the critical case where the reference energy corresponds to the value of a crossing of two electronic levels, one of these two levels being confining while the second dissociates. We show that the survival probability associated to a certain initial state is a sum of the usual time-dependent exponential contribution, and a reminder term that is jointly polynomially small with respect to the time and the semiclassical parameter. We also compute explicitly the main contribution of the remainder.

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@article{arxiv.1812.08724,
  title  = {Molecular dynamics at an energy-level crossing},
  author = {Philippe Briet and André Martinez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.08724},
  year   = {2018}
}

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37 pages, 1 figure

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