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Figure 2. MD simulation results for SD in response to electronic excitation of Cl 53 in room-temperature acetonitrile (left panel) and CO2 liquids. The solvent models and thermodynamic states are as in Ref. " and the solute model parameters are from Ref Nonequilibrium solvent response, S(f), and linear response approximations to it for the solute in the ground, Co(t), and excited, Q (f), electronic states are shown.

Within the QM continuum solvation framework, as in the case of isolated molecules, it is practice to compute the excitation energies with two different approaches the state-specific (SS) method and the linear-response (LR) method. The former has a long tradition [10-24], starting from the pioneering paper by Yomosa in 1974 [10], and it is related to the classical theory of solvatochromic effects the latter has been introduced few years ago in connection with the development of the LR theory for continuum solvation models [25-31],... 

R. Cammi and J. Tomasi, Nonequilibrium solvation theory for the polarizable continuum model - a new formulation at the SCF level with application to the case of the frequency-dependent linear electric-response function, Int. J. Quantum Chem., (1995) 465-74 B. Mennucci, R. Cammi and J. Tomasi, Excited states and solvatochromic shifts within a nonequilibrium solvation approach A new formulation of the integral equation formalism method at the self-consistent field, configuration interaction, and multiconfiguration self-consistent field level, J. Chem. Phys., 109 (1998) 2798-807 R. Cammi, L. Frediani, B. Mennucci, J. Tomasi, K. Ruud and K. V. Mikkelsen, A second-order, quadratically... 

Abstract The computational study of excited states of molecular systems in the condensed phase implies additional complications with respect to analogous studies on isolated molecules. Some of them can be faced by a computational modeling based on a continuum (i.e., implicit) description of the solvent. Among this class of methods, the polarizable continuum model (PCM) has widely been used in its basic formulation to study ground state properties of molecular solutes. The consideration of molecular properties of excited states has led to the elaboration of numerous additional features not present in the PCM basic version. Nonequilibrium effects, state-specific versus linear response quantum mechanical description, analytical gradients, and electronic coupling between solvated chromophores are reviewed in the present contribution. The presentation of some selected computational results shows the potentialities of the approach. 

At a given computational level, the solvent relaxation contribution to the excitation energy may be approximated by using two basically different methods, the state-specific method (SS) and the linear response method (LR), depending on the QM methodology used. This directly involves the problem of extending the PCM basic model to a QM description proper for excited states. 

R. Cammi, L. Frediani, B. Mennucci, K. Ruud, Multiconfigurational self-consistent field linear response for the polarizable continuum model Theory and application to ground and excited-state polarizabilities of para-nitroanUine in solution. J. Chem. Phys. 119, 5818 (2003)... 

R. Cammi, S. Comi, B. Mennucci, J. Tomasi, Electronic excitation energies of molecules in solution State specific and linear response methods for nonequilibrium continuum solvation models. J. Chem. Phys. 122, 104513 (2005)... 

This part introduces variational principles relevant to the quantum mechanics of bound stationary states. Chapter 4 covers well-known variational theory that underlies modern computational methodology for electronic states of atoms and molecules. Extension to condensed matter is deferred until Part III, since continuum theory is part of the formal basis of the multiple scattering theory that has been developed for applications in this subfield. Chapter 5 develops the variational theory that underlies independent-electron models, now widely used to transcend the practical limitations of direct variational methods for large systems. This is extended in Chapter 6 to time-dependent variational theory in the context of independent-electron models, including linear-response theory and its relationship to excitation energies. 

Despite the discouraging performance of the SOS approach for the electronic contributions to properties of more extended systems, the SOS formulas are frequently used for reasons of interpretation. Strongly absorbing states in the linear absorption spectrum may be identified as main contributors to the linear and nonlinear response properties, and truncated SOS expressions can be formed with this consideration in mind. In certain cases, molecules may have a single strongly dominant one-photon transition, and so-called two-states-models (TSM) can then be applied. The two states in question are obviously the ground state 0) and the Intense excited state /). 

The popularity of the SOS methods in calculations of non-linear optical properties of molecules is due to the so-called few-states approximations. The sum-over-states formalism defines the response of a system in terms of the spectroscopic parameters, like excitations energies and transition moments between various excited states. Depending on the level of approximation, those states may be electronic or vibronic or electronic-vibrational-rotational ones. Under the assumption that there are few states which contribute more than others, the summation over the whole spectrum of the Hamiltonian can be reduced to those states. In a very special case, one may include only one excited state which is assumed to dominate the molecular response through the given order in perturbation expansion. The first applications of two-level model to calculations of j3 date from late 1970s [93, 94]. The two-states model for first-order hyperpolarizability with only one excited state included can be written as ... 

Whereas the distinction between collective and cooperative effects can appear artificial, it is obvious that, since optical responses are gs properties, their nonadditivity cannot be ascribed to the delocalized nature of excited states. On the other hand, static responses can be calculated from sum-over-state (SOS) expressions involving excited state energies and transition dipole moments [35]. And in fact tlie exciton model has been recently used by several authors to calculate and/or discuss linear and non-linear optical responses of mm [36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42]. But tlie excitonic model hardly accounts for cooperativity and one may ask if there is any link between collective effects related to the delocalized nature of exciton states and cooperative effects in the gs, related to the self-consistent dependence of tlie local molecular gs on the surrounding molecules. 

Recently an extensive review has been published covering the calculation of NLO properties in the solid state [44]. We refer the Interested reader to this work for an extensive coverage of previous literature devoted to intermolecular interactions and their effects on optical responses of mm. In this work we will discuss models for collective and cooperative effects as occurring in mm with particular emphasis on the relation between the description of excited states and linear and non-linear static optical responses. We will mention a few seminal papers where the concepts of collective and cooperative behavior appeared. The proposed references then follow a very personal and unavoidably incomplete view of the very rich literature in the field. 

In fact, quenching effects can be evaluated and linearized through classic Stem-Volmer plots. Rate constants responsible for dechlorination, decay of triplets, and quenching can be estimated according to a proposed mechanism. A Stern-Volmer analysis of photochemical kinetics postulates that a reaction mechanism involves a competition between unimolecular decay of pollutant in the excited state, D, and a bimolecular quenching reaction involving D and the quencher, Q (Turro N.J.. 1978). The kinetics are modeled with the steady-state approximation, where the excited intermediate is assumed to exist at a steady-state concentration ... 

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