Environmental coordinates

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In contrast to the subsystem representation, the adiabatic basis depends on the environmental coordinates. As such, one obtains a physically intuitive description in terms of classical trajectories along Born-Oppenheimer surfaces. A variety of systems have been studied using QCL dynamics in this basis. These include the reaction rate and the kinetic isotope effect of proton transfer in a polar condensed phase solvent and a cluster [29-33], vibrational energy relaxation of a hydrogen bonded complex in a polar liquid [34], photodissociation of F2 [35], dynamical analysis of vibrational frequency shifts in a Xe fluid [36], and the spin-boson model [37,38], which is of particular importance as exact quantum results are available for comparison. 

To compute the de-wetting of intramolecular hydrogen bonds, we take into account the modulation of local permittivity determined by a change in the environmental coordinates Rjjy=1 K Ry, R y—j A where R is the position... 

Figure 8-4. Two views of double-well potential free energy projections on the proton coordinate, in a proton transfer reaction. Different values of the environmental coordinate(s) are represented by q. The proton is trapped near the donor and near the acceptor, when q takes its equilibrium values in the initial, q, and final state, q, respectively. From ref 62 with permission.

Schmidt, P. P. J. Chem. Soc. Far. 2, 1984, 80, 181 it should be noted, as Marcus [Marcus, R. A., J. Chem. Phys., 1984, 81, 4494] has pointed out, that my original treatment [Schmidt, P. P., J. Chem. Phys., 1973, 58, 4384] of the semiclassical limit for the rate constant assumes that all environmental coordinates are classical. Marcus, on the other hand, has derived a more complete and accurate expression that accounts for the fact that only some of the vibrational coordinates are classical. It is probably safe to say, however, that for the problem I consider in this paper, all the... 

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We pause to remark that the Bronsted coefficient a has often been used to describe TS structure via the Hammond postulate [15] or the Evans-Polanyi relation [45], where a is viewed as a measure of the relative TS structure along the reaction coordinate, usually a bond order or bond length. The important point is that, although adiabatic PT has a quite different, environmental, coordinate as the reaction coordinate, Eq. (10.12) is consistent with that general picture, with a proper recognition that quantum averages are involved. 

Figure 13.1. Representation of the model for the hydrogen transfer reaction used to interpret the experimental data (see text, and Refs. [6, 84, 85], for more details) some of the parameters in Eqs. (13.1)-(13.3) are shown. The three axes are E, energy q, environmental coordinate (from which the transferred hydrogen atom is excluded) HC, hydrogen coordinate. The four vertical panels show the potential energy curve as a function of the hydrogen coordinate for three values of the environmental coordinate is for the...

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There is a very powerful semiclassical path integral approach due to Wang and Wolynes [305] developed for the cases of moderate dependence of the reaction rate on the environmental coordinates, such as geometrical bottlenecks . Unfortunately, this semiclassical scheme does not work for a (5-functional sink (and it was not intended to). 

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Here, the qs represents the subsystem coordinates, whereas the xs denotes the environment coordinates. 5 [ (.),x(.)] is the Euclidean action for the entire system (as described in Equation 11.11), which can be thought of as the summation of Euclidean actions for the subsystem, bath, and the interaction. The reduced density matrix is obtained from Equation 11.22 by integrating out the environmental coordinates, yielding... 

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