Wigner's dynamical transition state theory in phase space: classical and quantum
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Wigner’s Dynamical Transition State Theory in Phase Space: Classical and Quantum
We develop Wigner’s approach to a dynamical transition state theory in phase space in both the classical and quantum mechanical settings. The key to our development is the construction of a normal form for describing the dynamics in the neighborhood of a specific type of saddle point that governs the evolution from reactants to products in high dimensional systems. In the classical case this is...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nonlinearity
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0951-7715,1361-6544
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/21/1/r01