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In th is eon text, K is the total classical energy including kinetic energy. You can then investigate the potential energy surface in a purely classical way using the positions (Rj) and velocities (V = dKi/dt) of the con stitiieri t atom s. 

Solutions to a Schrodinger equation for this last Hamiltonian (7) describe the vibrational, rotational, and translational states of a molecular system. This release of HyperChem does not specifically explore solutions to the nuclear Schrodinger equation, although future releases may. Instead, as is often the case, a classical approximation is made replacing the Hamiltonian by the classical energy ... 

The location of the quantum/classical boundary across a covalent bond also has implications for the energy terms evaluated in the Emm term. Classical energy terms that involve only quantum atoms are not evaluated. These are accounted for by the quantum Hamiltonian. Classical energy terms that include at least one classical atom are evaluated. Referring to Figure 2, the Ca—Cp bond term the N — Ca—Cp, C — Ca—Cp, Ha— Ca—Cp, Ca—Cp — Hpi, and Ca—Cp — Hp2 angle tenns and the proper dihedral terms involving a classical atom are all included. 

E +e +E corresponds to the classical energy of the charge distribution p. The E term in Equation 54 accounts for the remaining terms in the energy ... 

In order to determine the operator, we first write down the classical energy expression in terms of the coordinates and momenta. For the electron in a hydrogen atom, the classical energy is the sum of the kinetic energy and the mutual potential energy of the eleetron and the nucleus (a proton)... 

Equation (61) raises another interesting point. According to that equation, the values of both the bare and the effective classical energy bias of a transition—e and e, respectively—are limited from above by the lowest ripplon frequency (C02)- (Note that this is only realized in the e < 0 case, discussed in this section.) This is unimportant at low temperamres. But what happens at higher T, near this... 

Finally, it is a weU-known result of quantum mechanics" that the wavefunctions of harmonic oscillators extend outside of the bounds dictated by classical energy barriers, as shown schematically in Figure 10.1. Thus, in situations with narrow barriers it can... 

In the quantum mechanical applications of the two-body problem, the classical energy of the system becomes the Hamiltonian operator The conversion... 

With these results for the angular-momentum operators it is possible to obtain die Hamiltonian for the rotation of a symmetric top by direct substitution in Eq. (13). The leader is warned that care must be taken in this substitution, as die order of the derivatives is to be rigorously respected. However, given sufficient patience one can show that the classical energy becomes the Hamiltonian operator in the form (problem 12)... 

In Eq. (67) the classical energy of a free particle, a = mu2, has been substituted, with u its velocity and mv its momentum. Equation (67) is of course the well-known relation of deBroglie. 

The fact that quadricyclene and dienes quench the fluorescence of aromatic hydrocarbons despite the fact that the energetics for classical energy transfer are very unfavorable has been rationalized by the formation of an exciplex. A general mechanism is as follows ... 

The 1,3-dipole is often very unstable, its formation requires high temperatures and the subsequent cycloadditions require often long reaction times. Both of these conditions result in a decrease in yields and purity of products. The rapid heating induced by microwave irradiation avoids the harsh reaction conditions associated with classical heating and facilitates 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions that are very difficult (or impossible) to achieve with classical energy sources. 

When we include the constraint that the newly spawned basis function will have the same classical energy as the parent basis function, we have an overcomplete set of equations ... 

Despite its classical energy spectrum it would be wrong to simply treat the free particle as a classical entity. As soon as its motion is restricted, for instance, when confined to a fixed line segment 0 < x < L something remarkable happens to the spectrum. 

A single particle of (reduced) mass p in an orbit of radius r = rq + r2 (= interatomic distance) therefore has the same moment of inertia as the diatomic molecule. The classical energy for such a particle is E = p2/2m and the angular momentum L = pr. In terms of the moment of inertia I = mr2, it follows that L2 = 2mEr2 = 2EI. The length of arc that corresponds to particle motion is s = rep, where ip is the angle of rotation. The Schrodinger equation is1... 

Rotational quanta are seen to be larger than the translational by many orders of magnitude, but they are still small relative to average classical energies (kT = 4 x 10—21J at 300 K). The quanta are large enough to be observed, but even at room temperature rotational energies approach classical predictions. At low temperatures however, classical predictions can be seriously in error. 

The total classical energy E = H. The Schrodinger equation for the wave function. .. rn,t) which describes the dynamical state of the system is obtained by defining E and p as the differential operators... 

Hydrogen atoms on Cu( 111) can bind in two distinct threefold sites, the fee sites and hep sites. Use DFT calculations to calculate the classical energy difference between these two sites. Then calculate the vibrational frequencies of H in each site by assuming that the normal modes of the adsorbed H atom. How does the energy difference between the sites change once zero-point energies are included ... 

In cases where the classical energy, and hence the quantum Hamiltonian, do not contain terms that are explicitly time dependent (e.g., interactions with time varying external electric or magnetic fields would add to the above classical energy expression time dependent terms discussed later in this text), the separations of variables techniques can be used to reduce the Schrodinger equation to a time-independent equation. 

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