Molecular scattering and Born-Oppenheimer approximation
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In this paper, we study the scattering wave operators for a diatomic molecules by using the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Assuming that the ratio h between the electronic and nuclear masses is small, we construct adiabatic wave operators that, under some non trapping conditions, approximate the two-cluster wave operators up to any powers of the parameter h.
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