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The time-independent wave packet reactant-product decoupling (TIW-RPD) meth
od is a new method for calculating state-to-state reaction probabilities, w
hich we recently developed by extending the original reactant-product decou
pling method of Peng and Zhang (Peng, T.; Zharg, J. Z. H. J. Chem. Phys. 19
96, 105, 6072; Zhu, W.; Peng, T.; Zhang, J. Z. H. J. Chem. Phys. 1997, 106,
1742). In the TIW-RPD method, the nuclear dynamics Schroedinger equation i
s partitioned into a set of completely decoupled equations, each of which d
escribes the nuclear dynamics in either the reactant channel, one of the pr
oduct channels, or the strong-interaction region. In this paper we apply th
e TIW-RPD method to the (three-dimensional) Li + HF --> LiF + H (J = 0) rea
ction. We also describe an improvement to the reactant channel part of the
method. The state-to-state reaction probabilities for Li + HF converge very
well with respect to the size of the strong-interaction region, demonstrat
ing that the TIW-RPD method is robust enough to be applied to a wide range
of chemical reactions, including those in which the dynamics are influenced
by a long-range potential energy surface.