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A scattering resonance is one of the most striking quantum effects in low-temperature molecular collisions. Predicted decades ago theoretically, they have only been resolved experimentally for systems involving at most four atoms. Extension…

We develop a Monte Carlo wave function algorithm for the quantum linear Boltzmann equation, a Markovian master equation describing the quantum motion of a test particle interacting with the particles of an environmental background gas. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Marc Busse , Piotr Pietrulewicz , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Klaus Hornberger

We developed a general theoretical approach and a user-ready computer code that permit to study the dynamics of collisional energy transfer and ro-vibrational energy exchange in complex molecule-molecule collisions. The method is a mixture…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Carolin Joy , Bikramaditya Mandal , Dulat Bostan , Marie-Lise Dubernet , Dmitri Babikov

Accurate modelling of electrostatic interactions and charge transfer is fundamental to computational chemistry, yet most machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) rely on local atomic descriptors that cannot capture long-range…

DDSCAT.5a is a freely available software package which applies the "discrete dipole approximation" (DDA) to calculate scattering and absorption of electromagnetic waves by targets with arbitrary geometries and complex refractive index. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. T. Draine , Piotr J. Flatau

We apply to the nucleon-nucleus inelastic process a fully coherent microscopic multiple scattering approach. Our study addresses the complexities inherent in characterizing inelastic scattering events, offering a comprehensive theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-30 Matteo Vorabbi , Michael Gennari , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti , Petr Navrátil

Semi-leptonic electroweak interactions in nuclei - such as \beta decay, \mu capture, charged- and neutral-current neutrino reactions, and electron scattering - are described by a set of multipole operators carrying definite parity and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Wick Haxton , Cecilia Lunardini

The article discusses the correctness of the assumption about the similarity of molecular continuum electron functions with wave functions in electron-atom scattering. The elastic scattering of slow particles by pair of non-overlapping…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 A. S. Baltenkov , I. Woiciechowski

Cross sections from low-energy neutron-nucleus scattering have been evaluated using a coupled channel theory of scattering. Both a coordinate-space and a momentum-space formalism of that coupled-channel theory are considered.A simple…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Amos , S. Karataglidis , D. van der Knijff , L. Canton , G. Pisent , J. P. Svenne

We describe experimentally observed collective dynamics in colloidal suspensions of model hard-sphere particles using a modified mode coupling theory (MCT). This rescaled MCT is capable to describe quantitatively the wave-vector and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-08 Joel Diaz Maier , Joachim Wagner

A new web-server called The Molecule Calculator (MolCalc) is presented. The entry page is a molecular editor (JSmol) for interactive molecule building. The resulting structure can then be used to estimate molecular properties such as heats…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-07-15 Jan H. Jensen , Jimmy C. Kromann

A multi-channel algebraic scattering theory, to find solutions of coupled-channel scattering problems with interactions determined by collective models, has been structured to ensure that the Pauli principle is not violated. Positive…

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Physics based emulators offer a fast and reliable replacement for an exact solution of the scattering problem in nuclear physics. Previous work developed a reduced-basis emulator for single-channel elastic scattering using an optical…

Rigorous coupled-channel quantum scattering calculations on molecular collisions in external fields are computationally demanding due to the need to account for a large number of coupled channels and multiple total angular momenta $J$ of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Masato Morita , Timur V. Tscherbul

The present study presents a comprehensive theoretical investigation of atom and asymmetric top molecule inelastic scattering based on the R-matrix formalism. The proposed methodology establishes a rigorous framework for treating inelastic…

General formulas describing the multiple scattering of electron by polyatomic molecules have been derived within the framework of the model of non-overlapping atomic potentials. These formulas are applied to different carbon molecules, both…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 A. S. Baltenkov , S. T. Manson , A. Z. Msezane

AMDAT (Amorphous Molecular Dynamics Analysis Toolkit) is an open-source C++ toolkit for post-processing molecular dynamics trajectories, focused on high-performance static and dynamic analyses of amorphous, glassy, and polymer materials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-06 Pierre Kawak , William F. Drayer , David S. Simmons

Water (H$_2$O) is one of the most abundant molecules in the universe and is found in a wide variety of astrophysical environments. Rotational transitions in H$_2$O + H$_2$O collisions are important in modeling environments rich in water…