Kevin's Publications:

Preprints:

Paul Hansen, Kevin A. Mitchell, and John B. Delos, "Escape of trajectories from a vase-shaped cavity", in preparation. PDF

Kevin A. Mitchell and John B. Delos, "A new topological technique for characterizing homoclinic tangles", submitted to Physica D. PDF

K. A. Mitchell and J. B. Delos, ``The structure of ionizing electron trajectories for hydrogen in parallel fields'', submitted to Physica D. PDF

Refereed Publications:

K. A. Mitchell, J. P. Handley, B. Tighe, A. Flower, and J. B. Delos, ``Analysis of Chaos-Induced Pulse Trains in the Ionization of Hydrogen'', Phys. Rev. A 70, 043407 (2004). PDF

K. A. Mitchell, J. P. Handley, B. Tighe, A. Flower, and J. B. Delos, ``Chaos-Induced Pulse Trains in the Ionization of Hydrogen'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 073001 (2004). PDF

K. A. Mitchell, J. P. Handley, B. Tighe, S. K. Knudson, and J. B. Delos, ``Geometry and Topology of Escape I: Epistrophes'', Chaos 13, 880 (2003). PDF

K. A. Mitchell, J. P. Handley, S. K. Knudson, and J. B. Delos, ``Geometry and Topology of Escape II: Homotopic Lobe Dynamics'', Chaos 13, 892 (2003). PDF

Robert G. Littlejohn, Matthew Cargo, Tucker Carrington, Jr., Kevin A. Mitchell, and Bill Poirier, ``A general framework for discrete variable representation basis sets'', J. Chem. Phys. 116, 8691 (2002). PDF.

Robert G. Littlejohn and Kevin A. Mitchell, ``Gauge Theory of Small Vibrations in Polyatomic Molecules'' in Geometry, Dynamics, and Mechanics, eds. P. Newton, P. Holmes, A. Weinstein (Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002). PDF.

Kevin A. Mitchell, ``Gauge fields and extrapotentials in constrained quantum systems'', Phys. Rev. A. 63, 042112/1-20 (2001). PDF.

Kevin A. Mitchell and Robert G. Littlejohn, ``Boundary conditions on internal three-body wave functions'', Phys. Rev. A 61, 042502/1-16 (2000). PDF.

Kevin A. Mitchell and Robert G. Littlejohn, ``Kinematic orbits and the structure of the internal space for systems of five or more bodies'', J. Phys. A 33, 1395 (2000). PDF.

Robert G. Littlejohn, Kevin A. Mitchell, and Vincenzo Aquilanti, "Quantum dynamics of kinematic invariants in tetra- and polyatomic systems", PCCP 1, 1259 (1999). PDF.

Kevin A. Mitchell and Robert G. Littlejohn, "The rovibrational kinetic energy for complexes of rigid molecules", Mol. Phys. 96, 1305 (1999). PDF.

Robert G. Littlejohn, Kevin A. Mitchell, Vincenzo Aquilanti, and Simona Cavalli, "Body frames and frame singularities for three-atom systems", Phys. Rev. A 58, 3705 (1998). PDF.

Robert G. Littlejohn, Kevin A. Mitchell, Matthias Reinsch, Vincenzo Aquilanti, and Simona Cavalli, ``Internal spaces, kinematic rotations, and body frames for four-atom systems'', Phys. Rev. A 58, 3718 (1998). PDF.

Kevin A. Mitchell and Robert G. Littlejohn, "Derivation of planar three-body hyperspherical harmonics from monopole harmonics", Phys. Rev. A 56, 83 (1997). PDF.