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The author considers the interaction of a neutral atomic projectile colliding with a solid surface in the limit in which large numbers of vibrational quanta are exchanged, while at the same time the projectile itself may be moving with momenta corresponding to quantum mechanical motion.
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J. R. Manson (1993) studied this question.
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