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Recursive determination of phase shifts for screened Coulomb potentials

Atomic Physics 2019-04-30 v1

Abstract

In the calculation of hot-plasma atomic structure, the continuum wavefunctions are characterized by phase shifts, which therefore determine the scattering cross-sections. In this short paper, we propose a recurrence relation for the phase shifts in the case of a particular type of parametric potentials widely used in atomic-structure codes. These potentials have to be linear combinations of static screened Coulomb potentials (Yukawa-type potentials) multiplied by polynomial functions.

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@article{arxiv.1801.02041,
  title  = {Recursive determination of phase shifts for screened Coulomb potentials},
  author = {Jean-Christophe Pain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02041},
  year   = {2019}
}

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submitted to Journal of Physics Communications