Supercomputing Collision Processes and Applications

Kenneth L. Bell, Keith A. Berrington, Derrick S.F. Crothers, Alan Hibbert, Kenneth T. Taylor0306461900, 9780306461903, 9780306474644

This book contains 18 scientific papers setting out the latest developments in the scientific disciplines and endeavours to which Professor P. G. Burke has contributed over the last 40 years, prior to his formal retirement in September 1998.
The aim of the volume is to provide an up-to-date survey of the latest developments in many areas of atomic and molecular collision physics and applications and also a number of scientific disciplines where supercomputers play a central role. It will be of use to researchers in various scientific areas and especially to those entering new areas of atomic, molecular and optical physics. The book will form a permanent record celebrating the many contributions by Professor P. G. Burke, CBE, FRS, to the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Table of contents :
Preliminaries……Page 1
Preface……Page 6
Contents……Page 8
1. Fifty Years of Atomic and Molecular Collision Theory……Page 10
2. Electron-Atom Resonances……Page 18
3. Recent Progress in Electron-Atom Scattering……Page 24
4. Benchmark Studies in Electron-Impact Excitation of Atoms……Page 42
5. A Model Adiabatic Potential to Study Shapes and Locations of Single Particle Resonances……Page 60
6. Aspects of an Ab Initio Approach to Electron Scattering by Small Molecules……Page 76
7. Atoms in Intense Laser Fields……Page 86
8. Manipulating Small Molecules with Intense Laser Fields……Page 114
9. Matrix Methods……Page 128
10. Elastic Electron Collision with Chiral and Oriented Molecules……Page 146
11. Positron Scattering by Atoms……Page 164
12. From Positron to Positronium Scattering……Page 180
13. Embedding and R-Matrix Methods at Surfaces……Page 192
14. Negative Ion Resonance of Molecules on Surfaces……Page 206
15. BERTHA—4-Component Relativistic Molecular Quantum Mechanics……Page 222
16. JET Applications of Atomic Collisions……Page 234
17. Radiation Pressure and Element Diffusion in Stellar Interiors……Page 258
18. Atomic Physics of Muon-Catalyzed Fusion……Page 278
Index……Page 288