We present a review of the formalism and give some of the applications of polarization potentials in heavy ion scattering, placing special attention on the contributions of Prof. Mahir Hussein to the field. In particular, we discuss Feshbach’s formalism and show its applications to the case of coupling to rotational and vibrational states, in both the quantum mechanical and semiclassical cases.

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核物理中的极化势

我们对形式主义进行了综述，并给出了极化势在重离子散射中的一些应用，特别关注了Mahir Hussein教授对该领域的贡献。特别是，我们讨论了Feshbach的形式主义，并展示了其在量子力学和半经典情况下对旋转和振动状态耦合的应用。