Approximations , Adiabatic close-coupling

The close-coupling equations are also applicable to electron-molecule collision but severe computational difficulties arise due to the large number of rotational and vibrational channels that must be retained in the expansion for the system wavefiinction. In the fixed nuclei approximation, the Bom-Oppenlieimer separation of electronic and nuclear motion pennits electronic motion and scattering amplitudes f, (R) to be detemiined at fixed intemuclear separations R. Then in the adiabatic nuclear approximation the scattering amplitude for ... 

The results of HSCC calculations have proved much more rapid convergence with the number of coupled channels than the conventional close-coupling equations in terms of the independent-particle coordinates or the Jacobi coordinates based on them. This is considered to be because of the particle-particle correlations considerably taken into account already in the choice of the hyperspherical coordinate system. The results suggest an approximate adiabaticity with respect to the hyperradius p, even when the mass ratios might appear to violate the conditions for the adiabaticity, for example, for Ps- with three equal masses. Then, it makes sense to study an adiabatic approximation with p adopted as the adiabatic parameter. 

Solving eq. (11) including eq. (12) would aunount to exaud solution of the coupled-chamnel or close-coupling (CC) formulation in the adiabatic representation. The adiabatic approximation consists in neglecting the coupling terms, as it is done in the Bom-Oppenheimer separation. 

Adiabatic energy transfer occurs when relative collision velocities are small. In this case the relative motion may be considered a perturbation on adiabatic states defined at each intermolecular position. Perturbed rotational states have been introduced for T-R transfer at low collision energies and for systems of interest in astrophysics.A rotational-orbital adiabatic basis expansion has also been employed in T-R transfer,as a way of decreasing the size of the bases required in close-coupling calculations. In T-V transfer, adiabatic-diabatic transformations, similar to the one in electronic structure studies, have been implemented for collinear models.Two contributions on T-(R,V) transfer have developed an adiabatical semiclassical perturbation theory and an adiabatic exponential distorted-wave approximation. Finally, an adiabati-cally corrected sudden approximation has been applied to RA-T-Rg transfer in diatom-diatom collisions. 

It is well known that (4.3) can be solved exactly, but to make the comparison it is better to solve (4.3) in a perturbation expansion, and take the adiabatic result with non-adiabatic correction. We find agreement at least to terms quadratic in the coupling constant c [186]. It is further possible to show that the adiabatic approximation goes to an asymptotic limit that is not precisely equal to the exact solution, but very close to it even in pathological conditions. 

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