The complete set of target states

This method simply involves the solution of the Lippmann—Schwinger equations (6.73) or (6.87) with the potential matrix elements (7.35). The states i) are not eigenstates of the target Hamiltonian. They are configuration-interaction states or pseudostates obtained by diagonalising the target Hamiltonian in a square-integrable basis as described in section 5.6. 

So far the method has only been fully tested for one-electron atoms. In the case of hydrogen a complete check is available for a very restricted subset of angular-momentum states, namely LS-coupled collision states with / = X = 0. This is the Temkin—Poet problem (Temkin, 1962 Poet, 1978, 1981). The three-body potentials are separable in the radial coordinates. This enables a convergent numerical solution to be obtained. 

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The Lippmann—Schwinger equations (6.73) are written formally in terms of a discrete notation i) for the complete set of target states, which includes the ionisation continuum. For a numerical solution it is necessary to have a finite set of coupled integral equations. We formulate the coupled-channels-optical equations that describe reactions in a channel subspace, called P space. This is projected from the chaimel space by an operator P that includes only a finite set of target states. The entrance channel 0ko) is included in P space. The method was first discussed by Feshbach (1962). Its application to the momentum-space formulation of electron—atom scattering was introduced by McCarthy and Stelbovics... 

Since helium occurs naturally as an atomic gas it has been used for many years as a target for electron-collision experiments. However detailed calculations involving approximations for the complete set of target states have been performed only by the equivalent-local coupled-channels-optical method, described in section 7.6.2. 

The total ionisation cross section is a very important quantity in the study of electron—atom collisions. Not only does it give an overall test of theoretical methods for ionisation, but it is an essential check on the treatment of the complete set of target states in a calculation of scattering. 

We choose U so that IOIcq ) is as close to Fj, ko)) as possible. To accomplish this we first project the explicit form of (6.81) onto the target ground state 0) and expand in the complete set of target eigenstates j). 

Table 5. Summary of target states, type and number of reactions, and estimated computer time required to produce the complete set of calculated neutron cross sections for a suite of bismuth isotopes for incident energies up to 20 MeV.

Using Monte Carlo, the model is then relaxed using the new potential, resulting in a new calculated g r). The process is then iterated until it reaches convergence. This approach, known as Empirical Potential Structure Refinement (EPSR) has proved very powerful in the study of complex liquids, and of the solvation states of molecules in solution. It is particularly successful when it has as target functions a number (though not necessarily the complete set) of DPDFs from the system in question. 

It is assumed that target states p are indexed for each value of q such that a smooth diabatic energy function Ep(q) is defined. This requires careful analysis of avoided crossings. The functions should be a complete set of vibrational functions for the target potential Vp = Ep, including functions that represent the vibrational continuum. All vibrational basis functions are truncated at q = qd, without restricting their boundary values. The radial functions fra should be complete for r < a. 

If we introduce the complete set j) of target states into (7.157) the second-order term becomes... 

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Here E is the relative kinetic energy of the system. However, more general solutions of equation (1) can be constructed as superpositions of the V ( )) these solutions are known as wave packets. Typically, the l (E)) are labeled not only by the energy, E, but also by a complete set of eigenvalues for the system, including usually the relative momentum, k, and any internal states of the initial projectile and target. Then the wave packet, x ). is constructed as... 

A complete description of the method requires a procedure for selecting the initial conditions. At t 0, initial values for the complex basis set coefficients and the parameters that define the nuclear basis set (position, momentum, and nuclear phase) must be provided. Typically at the beginning of the simulation only one electronic state is populated, and the wavefunction on this state is modeled as a sum over discrete trajectories. The size of initial basis set (N/it = 0)) is clearly important, and this point will be discussed later. Once the initial basis set size is chosen, the parameters of each nuclear basis function must be chosen. In most of our calculations, these parameters were drawn randomly from the appropriate Wigner distribution [65], but the earliest work used a quasi-classical procedure [39,66,67], At this point, the complex amplitudes are determined by projection of the AIMS wavefunction on the target initial state (T 1)... 

The search starts from the initial state qo. The set W is a data structure which stores symbolic states which are not yet explored. The functionfinal decides whether the given symbolic state is a target state in which the production is completed. The symbolic reachability graph is step-wise constructed by evaluating the successor relation Succ(q), which computes the successor symbolic states of q. The best solution is returned in cost. Existing tools implement numerous extensions of the standard algorithm to improve the efficiency ... 

A C elfcan contain a Blank, a Number, or a Sum. Let s consider the abstract setSum action, which should set the target cell to be a sum of two others, shown on a simple state chart in Figure 6.39. We would have to wait for the user to enter two operands before the transition to a Sum was completed. During the interval, the implementation is in no state... 

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