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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463454003321

Autore

Nakamura Hiroki

Titolo

Quantum mechanical tunneling in chemical physics / / Hiroki Nakamura, Gennady Mil'nikov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2013

ISBN

0-429-08645-8

1-4665-0731-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

537.6/226

Soggetti

Tunneling (Physics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Quantum Mechanical Tunneling in Chemical Physics; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. One-Dimensional Theory; 3. Two-Dimensional Theory; 4. Multidimensional Effects: Peculiar Phenomena; 5. Nonadiabatic Tunneling; 6. Multidimensional Theory of Tunneling Splitting; 7. Numerical Applications to Polyatomic Molecules; 8. Decay of Metastable States; 9. Tunneling in Chemical Reactions; 10. Concluding Remarks and Future Perspectives; Appendix A: Proofs of Equation (2.95) and Equation (2.110); Appendix B: Derivation of Equation (6.80)

Appendix C: Herring Formula in Curved SpaceAppendix D: Derivation of Equation (6.97); Appendix E: Computer Code to Calculate Instanton Trajectory; Appendix F: Derivation of Some Equations in Section 6.4.2; Bibliography; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

This text explores methodologies that can be usefully applied to various realistic problems in molecular spectroscopy and chemical dynamics. It covers the direct evaluation of reaction rate constants for both electronically adiabatic chemical reactions on a single adiabatic potential energy surface and non-adiabatic chemical reactions in which two or more adiabatic potential energy surfaces are involved. It also discusses the non-adiabatic tunneling phenomenon that represents one class of non-adiabatic transitions on which the authors have made



an extensive research so far--