Space-time correlation function representation of reactive scattering by large systems

✍ Scribed by M.D. Girardeau; C.I. Ivanov

• Book ID: 103023900
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 131
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(86)87172-x

✦ Synopsis

Cross sections for atomic or molecular reactive scattering from a medium are expressed in terms of space-time CorreIation functions of the medium and transition amplitudes for individual reactive collisions. Among the physical effects included thereby are energy and momentum transfer to the medium. The relevant space-time correlation function for a reac tion of type A + M + B + C is a one-particle Green's function describing creation and propagation of an "M hole".