Abstract
The description of the interaction potential in collisions involving one or both partners with orbital degeneracy is shown to depend on the choice of phase for the azimuthal dependence of the electronic wavefunctions describing the molecular states of the partners. This has important consequences in the interpretation of OH(X 2Π) collisions, especially in regard to mechanisms for Λ-doublet population inversion. Theory and experiment are brought into accord for OH+H 2 collisions.
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