Equivalence between the prior- and post-interaction forms in distorted-wave Born-approximation transition amplitude
Abstract
In view of the importance of the equivalence between the prior-interaction and post-interaction forms for the validity of distorted-wave Born-approximation (DWBA) studies in reactive scattering, we present a comparison study between the two forms by illustrating a reactive atom - diatomic-molecule system. Our DWBA method presented earlier is found to satisfy the condition of the equivalence remarkably well.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- April 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.25.2385
- Bibcode:
- 1982PhRvA..25.2385E