Vibration-assisted tunneling: A semiclassical instanton approach

Molecular Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 547-559

  Ceotto, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

collinear reactions; imaginary time; instanton; rate constant; semiclassical; stability matrix

Indexed keywords

COLLINEAR REACTIONS; HEAVY PARTICLES; IMAGINARY TIME; INSTANTONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERIODIC TRAJECTORIES; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; SEMICLASSICAL; SIMPLE METHOD; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; THERMAL RATE CONSTANT;

EDGE DETECTION; QUANTUM THEORY; STIFFNESS MATRIX; TRAJECTORIES;

RATE CONSTANTS;

EID: 84861893386     PISSN: 00268976     EISSN: 13623028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2012.663943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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