Abstract
We show that the quantum-mechanical time-reversal operator provides a satisfying formulation of the generalized dilatation transformation for forming scalar products with partial complex conjugation, and leads to a theoretically justified stationarity principle for finding resonances (i.e., metastable states) in atomic and molecular systems.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2593-2602 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Physical Review A |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1990 |