Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.108, No.21, 8821-8829, 1998
Vector parametrization of the N-atom problem in quantum mechanics. II. Coupled-angular-momentum spectral representations for four-atom systems
Within the framework of adapted coupled-angular-momentum spectral representations, the geometrical description of a four-atom molecular system by three Jacobi relative position vectors is shown to result in matrices representing the kinetic energy operator, prediagonalized to a very large extent. A fully diagonal representation is built for the angular (internal and rotational) part of the problem.