Coriolis coupling effects in the dynamics of deep well reactions: application to the H(+) + D2 reaction

M Hankel1

  • 1Centre for Computational Molecular Science, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia. m.hankel@uq.edu.au

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