The Escape Rate of a Molecule
Chaotic Dynamics
2008-05-07 v1
Abstract
We show existence and give an implicit formula for the escape rate of the n-centre problem of celestial mechanics for high energies. Furthermore we give precise computable estimates of this rate. This exponential decay rate plays an important role especially in semiclassical scattering theory of n-atomic molecules. Our result shows that the diameter of a molecule is measurable in a (classical) high-energy scattering experiment.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0805.0728,
title = {The Escape Rate of a Molecule},
author = {Andreas Knauf and Markus Krapf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.0728},
year = {2008}
}
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28 pages, 1 figure