Semiclassical theory of diffraction in elastic scattering |
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| Authors: | George E. Zahr William H. Miller |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, and Inorganic Materials Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory , University of California , Berkeley, California, 94720 |
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| Abstract: | It is shown that diffraction from a purely repulsive potential can be described by a simple extension of the Ford and Wheeler semiclassical analysis. The diffraction arises from interference between a ‘classically allowed’ and a ‘classically forbidden’ contribution to the scattering amplitude. A numerical example is presented to show that the semiclassical description is quite quantitative. |
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