A Relation Between the Eikonal Equation Associated to a Potential Energy Surface and a Hyperbolic Wave Equation.

نویسندگان

  • Josep Maria Bofill
  • Wolfgang Quapp
  • Marc Caballero
چکیده

The potential energy surface (PES) of a molecule can be decomposed into equipotential hypersurfaces. We show in this article that the hypersurfaces are the wave fronts of a certain hyperbolic partial differential equation, a wave equation. It is connected with the gradient lines, or the steepest descent, or the steepest ascent lines of the PES. The energy seen as a reaction coordinate plays the central role in this treatment.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of chemical theory and computation

دوره 8 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012