Progress Toward the Application of Complex Coordinate and Complex Basis Function Techniques to Molecular Resonance Calculations

Abstract

In this talk I will discuss some recent developments in complex coordinate and basis function techniques which are beginning to make possible the application of these techniques to the treatment of molecular resonance phenomena. I will avoid any detailed discussion of the history of successful applications to atomic resonances and atomic photoionization. That history is in itself sufficient to furnish material for a review.1 Instead I will concentrate mainly on the discussion of two problems which have, until recently, slowed the development of generalizations of complex coordinate and basis function approaches suitable for molecular resonance calculations.