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The close-coupling treatment of excitation of vibration by collision is formally the same as that for rotational excitation described in Chapter 8. The expansion of the wave function contains, in addition to the rotational wave functions, the vibrational wave functions of the noninteracting systems. The potential integral becomes more complicated and has more subscripts. The radial wave function has more subscripts and there are a larger number of coupled equations to consider. Still the form of the system of coupled equations is the same as it was for pure rotational excitation, and the methods described in Chapter 8 may be used for solving these systems also. There are, however, differences which arise in vibrational transition problems under certain circumstances and these will be discussed; and the methods described in Chapter 8 may be used for solving these problems will be pointed out later.
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Secrest, D. (1979). Vibrational Excitation I: The Quantal Treatment. In: Bernstein, R.B. (eds) Atom - Molecule Collision Theory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2913-8_11
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