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Our group is interested in the observation and prediction of phenomena related to space. In particular, we study the spectroscopy of molecules and complexes of relevance in astrophysics and astrochemistry so as to facilitate their observation. Quite often our calculations are validated with available experimental data. A significant part of our work in this direction is to compute state-to-state cross-sections for relevant molecules from the Interstaellar Medium (ISM): we make a particular emphasis in the study of systems in high dimensionality where standard close-coupling prove to be challenging. Our goal is to establish exact quantum dynamical benchmark for system which are difficult to tackle with exact method but which could more rapidly be surveyed with more approximate methods.
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Steve Ndengue
Herve Tajouo Tela
Ayda Badri
The Quantum Dynamics Research Group is part of the Condensed Matter Physics Group of the ICTP-East African Institute for Fundamental Research. ICTP-EAIFR is a partner institute of the ICTP and a Category 2 UNESCO institute. It is built from a collaboration between ICTP, the University of Rwanda and the Ministry of Education of Rwanda.