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Figure C 1.5.10. Nonnalized fluorescence intensity correlation function for a single terrylene molecule in p-terjDhenyl at 2 K. The solid line is tire tlieoretical curve. Regions of deviation from tire long-time value of unity due to photon antibunching (the finite lifetime of tire excited singlet state), Rabi oscillations (absorjDtion-stimulated emission cycles driven by tire laser field) and photon bunching (dark periods caused by intersystem crossing to tire triplet state) are indicated. Reproduced witli pennission from Plakhotnik et al [66], adapted from [118].

Further attempts have been made this last decade to obtain competitive results for ppex as compared to simulation data. Recently, Bomont proposed the approximation B X)(r) = a(T, p)B(r) [98], Once the correlation functions, the excess internal energy, the pressure, and the isothermal compressibility are calculated with respect to the first thermodynamic consistency condition, the parameter cl(T, p) is iterated until p0pex/0p satisfies the second thermodynamic consistency condition within 1% [Eq. (87)]. At the end of the iteration cycle... 

DFT calculations with Becke-Perdew exchange-correlation functional were carried out for all the reaction intermediates present in the catalytic cycle of polar copolymerization, based on the simplified diimine catalyst in which the bulky diimine substituents were replaced by hydrogen atoms (model catalyst NAN-M+, NAN = -N(Ar)-CR-CR-N(Ar)- R=H, Ar=H, M=Ni, Pd). Some of the calculations, for the most important structures, were repeated using the real catalyst, containing bulky diimine substituents [real catalyst Ar=C6H3(o- -Pr)2, R=CH3],... 

In underdamped motion, the popular functional form cos a>i t exp —at) differs only in phase from the true correlation function, whose zeros are at ( = tui tan (— 2o)i//3), so that the first zero occurs somewhat after the first quarter-cycle. The velocity auto-correlation function, which we shall need later, is obtained by dififerentiating y twice and normaliang, giving... 

This subsection outlines the nMDS analysis of the microarray data on the gene transcriptional response of cell cycle-synchronized human fibroblasts to serum [21]. The dissimilarities are calculated as in the previous subsection. The data have been extensively analyzed with the aid of cluster analyses [21]. In contrast to the cluster analysis, for this example, nMDS clearly captures the time-dependence of the gene expression levels as if time correlation functions are explicitly analyzed (Fig. 26). 

Figure 11. Comparison of the ratio of the reactive correlation functions for two Hamiltonians, Ci(t)/C2(t), as a function of time t. Hamiltonian Hi is the model potential with y, = 0.1, y = 0.2. Hamiltonian H2 is the model potential with = 0.1, y = 0.3. The solid line is the computation with the kinetic cycle method the dotted line is the computation done in the conventional manner (running many trajectories with different initial conditions and counting how many are in region B at time t. 

The effect of the magnitude of dx on the efficiency of transition path sampling can be systematically analyzed by calculating correlation functions of various quantities as a function of the number of simulations cycles. Ideally, such correlation functions decay quickly, indicating that path space is sampled with high efficiency. In [11], we carried out such an efficiency analysis for transition path sampling of isomerizations of a model dimer immersed in a soft sphere liquid. In that study, we calculated correlation functions... 

The results of this analysis are depicted in Figure 1.7(h), which shows the number of correlated cycles as a function of the average acceptance probability Pace- The three different curves represent results obtained by analyzing the correlation functions of h Xg j2), 1, and r. In all three cases, the number of correlated cycles is high for low and high acceptance probabilities and has a minimum for intermediate acceptance probabilities. These results suggest that, as a rule of thumb, the magnitude of the random displacement dx should be chosen to obtain an acceptance probability of 40%. Since rejected moves are computationally less expensive on the... 

Fig. 4. Time dependence of the auto-correlation function of the X variable in the regime of homogeneous limit cycle (0-dimensional Brusselator). Parameter values a = 2,b = 5.2, f2 = 2,500.

MC and MD simulations could be replaced by other less expensive methods. We shall quote the use of the integral equation methods called RISM (reference interaction site model) explored by Ten-no et al. RISM methods give solute-solvent site-site correlations functions as MC and MD simulations do. The RISM procedure is inserted into an SCF QM cycle as for combined QM/MM methods based on simulations. We have no direct experience on computational costs of these procedures, but in general RISM calculations are faster by some orders of magnitude than MC simulations. This is paid for by a greater sensitivity of RISM to some features of the integral equation methods, such as the closure expressions one has to use. 

Figure 19 (a) Tube-model prediction for the correlation functions C(t), along with the Doi-Edwards regimes formulated for the mean-square displacement, (b) C(0 determined by MQ NMR for linear polybutadiene (PB) melts, from which the characteristic times of the tube model can be extracted. The plot includes early-time and low molar mass (/W) data for C(0 that is accessible by complementary field-cycling Ti relaxometry. Zis the number of entangled units of mass (c) Rouse and disentanglement... 

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