Potential splitting approach for molecular systems

In order to describe few-body scattering in the case of the Coulomb interaction, an approach based on splitting the reaction potential into a finite range part and a long range tail part is presented. The solution to the Schrodinger equation for the long range tail is used as an incoming wave in an inhomogeneous Schrodinger equation with the finite range potential. The resulting equation with asymptotic outgoing waves is then solved with the exterior complex scaling. The potential splitting approach is illustrated with calculations of scattering processes in the H${}^+$ -- H${}^+_2$ system considered as the three-body system with one-state electronic potential surface.