Landau-Levich model

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In recent years, the pre-transition-state idea of Gurney has been taken up again by Dogonadze, Levich, and co-workers, H who have used a model for the classical subsystem that is based on Landau s work, " and which was applied by Mott and Gurney and Pekar to crystals, and in modified form by Libby and Weiss to electrolytes. This idea makes use of continuum physics to obtain a description of the potential energy of an ion in solution, in a highly simplified model which is purely electrostatic. 

The main problems involved with the Levich-Dogonadze model are those of agreement with experiment and of the fundamental hypotheses used. They are probably correct in assuming that the transition between the different electronic terms should, in principle, be calculated (if this is possible) using the perturbation theory approximation for a quantum transition probability (w) from a process of Landau-Zener type, i.e.. 

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