Supercomputing, Collision Processes, and Applications

✍ Scribed by A. Dalgarno (auth.), Kenneth L. Bell, Keith A. Berrington, Derrick S. F. Crothers, Alan Hibbert, Kenneth T. Taylor (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Series: Physics of Atoms and Molecules
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Professor Philip G. Burke, CBE, FRS formally retired on 30 September 1998. To recognise this occasion some of his colleagues, friends, and former students decided to hold a conference in his honour and to present this volume as a dedication to his enormous contribution to the theoretical atomic physics community. The conference and this volume of the invited talks reflect very closely those areas with which he has mostly been asso- ated and his influence internationally on the development of atomic physics coupled with a parallel growth in supercomputing. Phil’s wide range of interests include electron-atom/molecule collisions, scattering of photons and electrons by molecules adsorbed on surfaces, collisions involving oriented and chiral molecules, and the development of non-perturbative methods for studying multiphoton processes. His devel- ment of the theory associated with such processes has enabled important advances to be made in our understanding of the associated physics, the interpretation of experimental data, has been invaluable in application to fusion processes, and the study of astrophysical plasmas (observed by both ground- and space-based telescopes). We therefore offer this volume as our token of affection and respect to Philip G. Burke, with the hope that it may also fill a gap in the literature in these important fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Fifty Years of Atomic and Molecular Collision Theory....Pages 1-7
Electron-Atom Resonances....Pages 9-14
Recent Progress in Electron-Atom Scattering....Pages 15-31
Benchmark Studies in Electron-Inpact Excitation of Atoms....Pages 33-50
A Model Adiabatic Potential to Study Shapes and Locations of Single Particle Resonances: The Case of Electron-Ozone Scattering....Pages 51-66
Aspects of an AB Initio Approach to Electron Scattering by Small Molecules....Pages 67-76
Atoms in Intense Laser Fields....Pages 77-103
Manipulating Small Molecules with Intense Laser Fields....Pages 105-118
Matrix Methods....Pages 119-136
Elastic Electron Collision with Chiral and Oriented Molecules....Pages 137-153
Positron Scattering by Atoms....Pages 155-170
From Positron to Positronium Scattering....Pages 171-182
Embedding and R-Matrix Methods at Surfaces....Pages 183-195
Negative Ion Resonance of Molecules on Surfaces: From Spectroscopy to Dynamics....Pages 197-211
Bertha — 4-Component Relativistic Molecular Quantum Mechanics....Pages 213-224
JET Applications of Atomic Collisions....Pages 225-247
Radiation Pressure and Element Diffusion in Stellar Interiors....Pages 249-267
Atomic Physics of Muon-Catalyzed Fusion....Pages 269-278

✦ Subjects

Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Plasmas;Mathematical and Computational Physics;Astrophysics