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As described at the end of section Al.6.1. in nonlinear spectroscopy a polarization is created in the material which depends in a nonlinear way on the strength of the electric field. As we shall now see, the microscopic description of this nonlinear polarization involves multiple interactions of the material with the electric field. The multiple interactions in principle contain infomiation on both the ground electronic state and excited electronic state dynamics, and for a molecule in the presence of solvent, infomiation on the molecule-solvent interactions. Excellent general introductions to nonlinear spectroscopy may be found in [35, 36 and 37]. Raman spectroscopy, described at the end of the previous section, is also a nonlinear spectroscopy, in the sense that it involves more than one interaction of light with the material, but it is a pathological example since the second interaction is tlirough spontaneous emission and therefore not proportional to a driving field... 

Linear response theory is an example of a microscopic approach to the foundations of non-equilibrium thennodynamics. It requires knowledge of tire Hamiltonian for the underlying microscopic description. In principle, it produces explicit fomuilae for the relaxation parameters that make up the Onsager coefficients. In reality, these expressions are extremely difficult to evaluate and approximation methods are necessary. Nevertheless, they provide a deeper insight into the physics. 

The classical microscopic description of molecular processes leads to a mathematical model in terms of Hamiltonian differential equations. In principle, the discretization of such systems permits a simulation of the dynamics. However, as will be worked out below in Section 2, both forward and backward numerical analysis restrict such simulations to only short time spans and to comparatively small discretization steps. Fortunately, most questions of chemical relevance just require the computation of averages of physical observables, of stable conformations or of conformational changes. The computation of averages is usually performed on a statistical physics basis. In the subsequent Section 3 we advocate a new computational approach on the basis of the mathematical theory of dynamical systems we directly solve a... 

In order to compute average properties from a microscopic description of a real system. one must evaluate in tegrals over phase space. For an A -particle system in an cn sem hie with distribution... 

Mechanisms. Mechanism is a technical term, referring to a detailed, microscopic description of a chemical transformation. Although it falls far short of a complete dynamical description of a reaction at the atomic level, a mechanism has been the most information available. In particular, a mechanism for a reaction is sufficient to predict the macroscopic rate law of the reaction. This deductive process is vaUd only in one direction, ie, an unlimited number of mechanisms are consistent with any measured rate law. A successful kinetic study, therefore, postulates a mechanism, derives the rate law, and demonstrates that the rate law is sufficient to explain experimental data over some range of conditions. New data may be discovered later that prove inconsistent with the assumed rate law and require that a new mechanism be postulated. Mechanisms state, in particular, what molecules actually react in an elementary step and what products these produce. An overall chemical equation may involve a variety of intermediates, and the mechanism specifies those intermediates. For the overall equation... 

In electrode kinetics a relationship is sought between the current density and the composition of the electrolyte, surface overpotential, and the electrode material. This microscopic description of the double layer indicates how stmcture and chemistry affect the rate of charge-transfer reactions. Generally in electrode kinetics the double layer is regarded as part of the interface, and a macroscopic relationship is sought. For the general reaction... 

A microscopic description characterizes the structure of the pores. The objective of a pore-structure analysis is to provide a description that relates to the macroscopic or bulk flow properties. The major bulk properties that need to be correlated with pore description or characterization are the four basic parameters porosity, permeability, tortuosity and connectivity. In studying different samples of the same medium, it becomes apparent that the number of pore sizes, shapes, orientations and interconnections are enormous. Due to this complexity, pore-structure description is most often a statistical distribution of apparent pore sizes. This distribution is apparent because to convert measurements to pore sizes one must resort to models that provide average or model pore sizes. A common approach to defining a characteristic pore size distribution is to model the porous medium as a bundle of straight cylindrical or rectangular capillaries (refer to Figure 2). The diameters of the model capillaries are defined on the basis of a convenient distribution function. 

Due to the complexity of macromolecular materials computer simulations become increasingly important in polymer science or, better, in what is now called soft matter physics. There are several reviews available which deal with a great variety of problems and techniques [1-7]. It is the purpose of the present introduction to give a very brief overview of the different approaches, mainly for dense systems, and a few apphcations. To do so we will confine ourselves to techniques describing polymers on a molecular level. By molecular level we mean both the microscopic and the mesoscopic level of description. In the case of the microscopic description (all)... 

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During the production of the chapter, a current review of the RFOT theory has appeared in print [V. Lubchenko and P. G. Wolynes, Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 58, 235 (2007)]. In addition, microscopic descriptions of the onset of activationless reconfigurations [J. D. Stevenson, J. Schmalian, and P. G Wolynes, Nat. Phys. 2, 268 (2006)] and prefactors for viscosity and ionic conductivity of deeply supercooled melts [V. Lubchenko, J. Chem. Phys. 126, 174503 (2007)] are now available. 

In this sense, similar to other contributions in this volume, we will attempt to bridge the gap from microscopic to mesoscopic and thereafter to the semimacroscopic [45] regime within a simulation scheme. Firstly, we will describe in detail a mapping procedure to go from a microscopic description of a polymer chain to a mesoscopic description which allows a fairly effective simulation procedure on a coarse-grained level [43]. The choice of three modifications of one polymer... 

The mechanism of a chemical reaction is a microscopic description of the reaction in terms... 

The model proposed by Anderson and Phillips gives a phenomenological explanation of the properties of the amorphous materials without supplying a detailed microscopic description [42]. Low-temperature measurements of the specific heat of amorphous solids have however shown that instead of a linear contribution as expected from the TLS theory, the best representation of data is obtained with an overlinear term of the type [43,44] ... 

The absolute value of the entropy of a compound is obtained directly by integration of the heat capacity from 0 K. The main contributions to the heat capacity and thus to the entropy are discussed in this chapter. Microscopic descriptions of the heat capacity of solids, liquids and gases range from simple classical approaches to complex lattice dynamical treatments. The relatively simple models that have been around for some time will be described in some detail. These models are, because of their simplicity, very useful for estimating heat capacities and for relating the heat capacity to the physical and chemical... 

We turn now to the microscopic description of an imperfect crystal. The various defects in any imperfect crystal can be imagined to be formed from a corresponding perfect crystal by one or more of the following processes (a) remove an atom of species Os from the crystal leaving a vacant lattice site, (b) remove an atom of species Os from the crystal and replace it by an atom of a different species (either Oi or at), (c) add to the crystal an atom of any species to a site on a sublattice unoccupied in the perfect crystal. We refer to the latter as atoms in interstitial positions. Let B be a set of numbers such that Br is the number of sites on sublattice number r in the perfect crystal, and let be the number of sublattices in the crystal (including interstitial sublattices not occupied in the perfect crystal). The total number of sites of all kinds in the perfect crystal is then... 

It is well-known that the electrophoretic effect involves the hydrodynamical properties of the solvent in a very crucial way for this reason, the theory of this effect is rather difficult. However, using a Brownian approximation for the ions, we have been able to obtain recently a microscopic description of this effect. This problem, together with the more general question of long-range hydrodynamical correlations, is discussed in Section VI. 

For the case of a pure monatomic liquid, in the limit that there are only pair interactions, the pair distribution function provides a complete microscopic specification from which all thermodynamic properties can be calculated 2>. If there are (excess) three molecule interactions, then one must also know the triplet distribution function to complete the microscopic description the extension to still higher order (excess) interactions is obvious. 

It is clear, however, that one may introduce a microscopic description of the solvent into the above formalism. This was done by Straus, Calhoun, and Voth. ° The total classical Hamiltonian is given by... 

The only currently existing theory for the glass transition is the mode coupling theory (MCT) (see, e.g. [95, 96, 106]). MCT is an approach based on a rather microscopic description of the dynamics of density fluctuations and correlations among them. Although the theory was only formulated originally for simple (monatomic) fluids, it is believed to be of much wider applicability. In this review we will only briefly summarize the main basis and predictions of this theory, focusing on those that can be directly checked by NSE measurements. 

To summarize the goal of this section, we must start with the microscopic description of the catalytic reaction, then consider diffusion in pores, and then examine the reactant composition around and within the pellet, in order finally to describe the reactor maSS-balance equations in terms of z alone. The student should understand the logic of this procedure as we go from micrscopic to macroscopic, or the following sections will be unintelligible (or even more unintelligible than usual). 

At r > Tr, the relaxation of a non-equilibrium surface morphology by surface diffusion can be described by Eq. 1 the thermodynamic driving force for smoothing smoothing is the surface stiffness E and the kinetics of the smoothing is determined by the concentration and mobility of the surface point defects that provide the mass transport, e.g. adatoms. At r < Tr, on the other hand, me must consider a more microscopic description of the dynamics that is based on the thermodynamics of the interactions between steps, and the kinetics of step motion [17]. 

The detailed microscopic description of a chemical reaction in terms of the motion of the individual atoms taking part in the event is known as the reaction dynamics. The study of reaction dynamics at surfaces is progressing rapidly these years, to a large extent because more and more results from detailed molecular beam scattering experiments are becoming available. 

The link between the microscopic description of the reaction dynamics and the macroscopic kinetics that can be measured in a catalytic reactor is a micro-kinetic model. Such a model will start from binding energies and reaction rate constants deduced from surface science experiments on well defined single crystal surfaces and relate this to the macroscopic kinetics of the reaction. 

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