Angular momentum for diatoms described by gauge fields
- 30 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 56 (26), 2779-2780
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.56.2779
Abstract
When diatomic nuclear motion is described in an adiabatic approximation by a guage field, the conserved angular momentum possesses a nonkinematical contribution. The present work derives this expression and, by a change of basis, gives a simple form for the addition.Keywords
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