Phys. Rev. A 68, 042717 (2003) [8 pages]Nonadiabatic couplings in low-energy collisions of hydrogen ground-state atomsReceived 11 August 2003; published 23 October 2003 The effect of nonadiabatic couplings on low-energy s-wave scattering of two hydrogen atoms is investigated. Coupling matrix elements are computed in a wide range of internuclear distances. The resulting scattering equations are numerically unstable and therefore are integrated only approximately. Computations are performed for H, D, and T atoms. The phase shifts in the zero velocity limit are inversely proportional to the nuclear reduced mass δ0≈0.392/μ. This leads to infinite scattering lengths. © 2003 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.68.042717
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.68.042717
PACS:
34.10.+x, 34.20.Cf, 34.50.-s
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