Edited by Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine and renowned authority Stuart A. Rice, the Advances in Chemical Physics series provides a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations in every area of the discipline. In a format that encourages the expression of individual points of view, experts in the field present comprehensive analyses of subjects of interest. Advances in Chemical Physics remains the premier venue for presentations of new findings in its field.
Author(s): Stuart Alan Rice, Mikito Toda
Series: Advances in Chemical Physics
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 542
GEOMETRIC STRUCTURES OF PHASE SPACE IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL CHAOS A SPECIAL VOLUME OF ADVANCES IN CHEMICAL PHYSICS VOLUME 130 PART A......Page 3
EDITORIAL BOARD......Page 4
CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 130......Page 7
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
PREFACE......Page 13
CONTENTS PART A......Page 25
PART I PHASE-SPACE GEOMETRY OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND REACTION PROCESSES......Page 29
CHAPTER 1 CLASSICAL, SEMICLASSICAL, AND QUANTUM MECHANICAL UNIMOLECULAR REACTION RATE THEORY......Page 31
CHAPTER 2 REGULARITY IN CHAOTIC TRANSITIONS ON TWO-BASIN LANDSCAPES......Page 171
CHAPTER 3 A NEW LOOK AT THE TRANSITION STATE: WIGNER’S DYNAMICAL PERSPECTIVE REVISITED......Page 199
CHAPTER 4 GEOMETRY OF PHASE-SPACE TRANSITION STATES: MANY DIMENSIONS, ANGULAR MOMENTUM......Page 245
CHAPTER 5 INTRAMOLECULAR DYNAMICS ALONG ISOMERIZATION AND DISSOCIATION PATHWAYS......Page 295
CHAPTER 6 CLASSICAL COULOMB THREE-BODY PROBLEM......Page 333
CHAPTER 7 GLOBAL ASPECTS OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL PHASE SPACE......Page 365
CHAPTER 8 CLASSICAL MECHANISM OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL BARRIER TUNNELING......Page 429
CHAPTER 9 COARSE-GRAINED PICTURE FOR CONTROLLING QUANTUM CHAOS......Page 463
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 487
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 515
