Abstract
Resonant charge transfer in alkali-ion–alkali-atom collisions is investigated by using the molecular-orbital expansion method incorporating the use of electron translation factors. Molecular wave functions and eigenenergies are obtained by the pseudopotential method. Molecular properties, , , and , obtained in the present calculation are in good accord with other recent theoretical results, as well as spectroscopic measurements. Three-state close-coupling calculations reproduce the positions of the maxima and minima in the oscillatory structure seen experimentally in the resonant-charge-transfer cross sections for the and systems. The magnitude of the total cross sections and their velocity dependence are in agreement with experimental measurements.
- Received 11 November 1985
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.33.3800
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