Classical, semiclassical, and quantum investigations of the four-sphere scattering system

Jörg Main, Erdinç Atilgan, Howard S. Taylor, and Günter Wunner
Phys. Rev. E 69, 056227 – Published 28 May 2004

Abstract

A genuinely three-dimensional system, viz. the hyperbolic four-sphere scattering system, is investigated with classical, semiclassical, and quantum mechanical methods at various center-to-center separations of the spheres. The efficiency and scaling properties of the computations are discussed by comparisons to the two-dimensional three-disk system. While in systems with few degrees of freedom modern quantum calculations are, in general, numerically more efficient than semiclassical methods, this situation can be reversed with increasing dimension of the problem. For the four-sphere system with large separations between the spheres, we demonstrate the superiority of semiclassical versus quantum calculations, i.e., semiclassical resonances can easily be obtained even in energy regions which are unattainable with the currently available quantum techniques. The four-sphere system with touching spheres is a challenging problem for both quantum and semiclassical techniques. Here, semiclassical resonances are obtained via harmonic inversion of a cross-correlated periodic orbit signal.

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  • Received 12 November 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.69.056227

©2004 American Physical Society

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Jörg Main1, Erdinç Atilgan2, Howard S. Taylor2, and Günter Wunner1

  • 1Institut für Theoretische Physik 1, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA

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Vol. 69, Iss. 5 — May 2004

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