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Ford and Wheeler’s paper on elastic scattering was the first to fully analyze the semiclassical limit of quantum mechanics for a collision process and thus reveal the nature of quantum corrections to classical mechanics therein. This “perspective” discusses the historical setting, the content, and present day implications of this work.
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Miller, W.H. (2000). Using classical mechanics in a quantum framework. Perspective on “Semiclassical description of scattering”. In: Cramer, C.J., Truhlar, D.G. (eds) Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10421-7_22
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