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Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 2779–2780 (1986)

Angular momentum for diatoms described by gauge fields

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R. Jackiw
Center for Theoretical Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Received 21 March 1986; published in the issue dated 30 June 1986

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.

© 1986 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.2779
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.2779
PACS:
03.65.Ge, 11.15.Kc, 33.10.Ev