Wave packet dynamics along bifurcating reaction paths

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 118, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 5831-5840

  Lasorne, B ^a   Dive, G ^b   Lauvergnat, D ^a   Desouter Lecomte, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FREE RADICAL REACTIONS; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BIFURCATING REACTION PATHS; METHOXY RADICAL ISOMERIZATION; NONADIABATIC TRANSITIONS; PITCHFORK MODEL; VALLEY RIDGE INFLECTION POINT; WAVE PACKET DYNAMICS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0345381856     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1553978     Document Type: Article

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