Determining partial differential cross sections for low-energy electron photodetachment involving conical intersections using the solution of a Lippmann-Schwinger equation constructed with standard electronic structure techniques.

A method for obtaining partial differential cross sections for low energy electron photodetachment in which the electronic states of the residual molecule are strongly coupled by conical intersections is reported. The method is based on the iterative solution to a Lippmann-Schwinger equation, using a zeroth order Hamiltonian consisting of the bound nonadiabatically coupled residual molecule and a free electron. The solution to the Lippmann-Schwinger equation involves only standard electronic structure techniques and a standard three-dimensional free particle Green's function quadrature for which fast techniques exist.

On the determination of partial differential cross sections for photodetachment and photoionization processes producing polyatomic molecules with electronic states coupled by conical intersections.

A formalism is derived for the computation of partial differential cross sections for electron photodetachment and photoionization processes that leave the residual or target molecule in electronic states that are strongly coupled by conical intersections. Because the electronic states of the target are nonadiabatically coupled, the standard adiabatic states approach of solving the electronic Schrödinger equation for the detached electron at fixed nuclear geometries and then vibrationally averaging must be fundamentally modified. We use a Lippmann-Schwinger equation based approach, which leads naturally to a partitioning of the transition amplitude into a Dyson orbital like part plus a scattering correction.

On the determination of intensities for electron photodetachment and photoionization spectra involving states coupled by conical intersections: total integral cross sections for polyatomic molecules.

The formal underpinning is derived for the computational determination of electron photodetachment and photoionization total integral cross sections for molecules in which the residual species, which can be a neutral or an ion, has states that are strongly coupled by conical intersections. The theory takes full account of the requisite antisymmetry of all the electrons and the potential nonorthogonality of the orbital for the scattering electron to the occupied molecular orbitals of the residual. The breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation requires significant modifications to the standard adiabatic state theory.

A case of gastric cancer initially presenting with polydipsia.

Metastatic brain tumors from gastric cancer are extremely rare. A 61-year-old Korean woman, initially presenting with polydipsia and polyuria, was found to have metastatic lesions in the brain by MRI. We performed several diagnostic procedures to determine the origin of the brain metastases.

Pulmonary edema during pregnancy: unilateral presentation is not rare.

Information regarding pulmonary edema in obstetric patients is limited, especially its natural history as most cases are from tertiary care centers. The incidence, etiology, and course of pulmonary edema in all obstetric patients at a primary-secondary care center was studied prospectively among 29,621 obstetric cases in the past 3.5 years.