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ESAIM: M2AN
Volume 41, Number 2, March-April 2007
Special issue on Molecular Modelling
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Page(s) | 297 - 314 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/m2an:2007023 | |
Published online | 16 June 2007 |
The time-dependent Born-Oppenheimer approximation
1
Zentrum Mathematik, TU München, Germany.
2
Mathematisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, Germany.
Received:
6
September
2005
We explain why the conventional argument for deriving the time-dependent Born-Oppenheimer approximation is incomplete and review recent mathematical results, which clarify the situation and at the same time provide a systematic scheme for higher order corrections. We also present a new elementary derivation of the correct second-order time-dependent Born-Oppenheimer approximation and discuss as applications the dynamics near a conical intersection of potential surfaces and reactive scattering.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 81Q05 / 81Q15 / 81Q70
Key words: Schrödinger equation / Born-Oppenheimer approximation / adiabatic methods / almost-invariant subspace.
© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2007
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