On the equivalence of two commonly used forms of semiclassical instanton theory

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Althorpe, Stuart C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE DESCRIPTIONS; COMPLEX PLANES; INSTANTON THEORY; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; PERIODIC ORBITS; QUANTUM TRANSITIONS; RING POLYMERS; SEMICLASSICAL LIMIT; TIME CORRELATION FUNCTIONS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY;

STEEPEST DESCENT METHOD;

EID: 79953208641     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3563045     Document Type: Article

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