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The algorithms of the mixed classical-quantum model used in HyperChem are different for semi-empirical and ab mi/io methods. The semi-empirical methods in HyperChem treat boundary atoms (atoms that are used to terminate a subset quantum mechanical region inside a single molecule) as specially parameterized pseudofluorine atoms. However, HyperChem will not carry on mixed model calculations, using ab initio quantum mechanical methods, if there are any boundary atoms in the molecular system. Thus, if you would like to compute a wavefunction for only a portion of a molecular system using ab initio methods, you must select single or multiple isolated molecules as your selected quantum mechanical region, without any boundary atoms. 

In the adiabatic bend approximation (ABA) for the same reaction,18 the three radial coordinates are explicitly treated while an adiabatic approximation was used for the three angles. These reduced dimensional studies are dynamically approximate in nature, but nevertheless can provide important information characterizing polyatomic reactions, and they have been reviewed extensively by Clary,19 and Bowman and Schatz.20 However, quantitative determination of reaction probabilities, cross-sections and thermal reaction rates, and their relation to the internal states of the reactants would require explicit treatment of five or the full six degrees-of-freedom in these four-atom reactions, which TI methods could not handle. Other approximate quantum approaches such as the negative imaginary potential method16,21 and mixed classical and quantum time-dependent method have also been used.22... 

RMT). K systems are most strongly mixing classical systems with a positive Kolmogorov entropy. The conjecture turned out valid also for less chaotic (ergodic) systems without time-reversal invariance leading to the Gaussian unitary ensemble (GUE). 

This mixed classical/quantum expression is valid for classical nuclear behavior and, strictly speaking, for the case of direct two-site interaction rather than superexchange, as the Landau-Zener expression was derived from the time-dependent Schrodinger equation assuming a two-state (reactant/product) electronic system with direct coupling. Nevertheless, it becomes clear on physical grounds that the form of Eqs. 4-5 can serve to define an effective A in the superexchange case in terms of the Rabi precession frequency characteristic of the two trap sites embedded in the complex system wherein 2A/h would be computed from this net effective Rabi precession frequency. 

Because the mapping approach treats electronic and nuclear dynamics on the same dynamical footing, its classical limit can be employed to study the phase-space properties of a nonadiabatic system. With this end in mind, we adopt a onemode two-state spin-boson system (Model IVa), which is mapped on a classical system with two degrees of freedom (DoF). Studying various Poincare surfaces of section, a detailed phase-space analysis of the problem is given, showing that the model exhibits mixed classical dynamics [123]. Furthermore, a number of periodic orbits (i.e., solutions of the classical equation of motion that return to their initial conditions) of the nonadiabatic system are identified and discussed [125]. It is shown that these vibronic periodic orbits can be used to analyze the nonadiabatic quantum dynamics [126]. Finally, a three-mode model of nonadiabatic photoisomerization (Model III) is employed to demonstrate the applicability of the concept of vibronic periodic orbits to multidimensional dynamics [127]. 

As discussed in Section 4.2 type II systems (Bliimel and Esser (1995)) show exponential sensitivity in the quantum subsystem. This allows the possibility of investigating the characteristics of true quantum chaos (type III quantum chaos) using the quantum subsystems of type II systems as a model. Apart from these new possibilities for fundamental research, type II systems have already found an important application. The mixed classical/quantum description, the basis of type II chaos, is a natural starting point for the investigation of the physics of dimers. In these systems chaos may result when electronic and vibronic degrees of freedom are coupled (Hennig and Esser (1992), Esser and Schanz (1995)). 

Thermodynamic effects of directional forces in liquid mixtures.— The theory applied to pure liquids in the last two sections can be generalized to liquid mixtures and can be used to discuss the effects of directional forces on the thermodynamic functions of mixing. Classical statistical mechanics leads to a complete expression for the free energy of a multicomponent system in terms of the intermolecular energies Ust for all pairs of components s and t. Each Ust can be expanded in the general manner (2.1), so that it is separated into a spherically symmetric part and various directional terms. 

A description, which is somewhat intermediate between a full quantum model and a classical propagation scheme is the Gaussian wave packet approach for the classical-like mode. This picture was first introduced by Heller [44] and adapted by Billing [18,45,46] to the mixed classical quantum system. Therein one mode is described as a time dependent Gaussian wave packet [18,15]... 

As has been mentioned above, a new method for the treatment of the dynamics of mixed classical quantum system has been recently suggested by Jung-wirth and Gerber [50,51]. The method uses the classically based separable potential (CSP) approximation, in which classically molecular dynamics simulations are used to determine an effective time-dependent separable potential for each mode, then followed by quantum wave packet calculations using these potentials. The CSP scheme starts with "sampling" the initial quantum state of the system by a set of classical coordinates and momenta which serve as initial values for MD simulations. For each set j (j=l,2,...,n) of initial conditions a classical trajectory [q (t), q 2(t),..., q N(t)] is generated, and a separable time-dependent effective potential V (qj, t) is then constructed for each mode i (i=l,2,...,N) in the following way ... 

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This review is concerned with the advances in our understanding of chemical problems that have occurred as a result of developments in computational electrodynamics, with an emphasis on problems involving the optical properties of nanoscale metal particles. In addition, in part of the review we describe theoretical methods that mix classical electrodynamics with molecular quantum mechanics, and which thereby enable one to describe the optical properties of molecules that interact with nanoparticles. Our focus will be on linear optical properties, and on the interaction of electromagnetic fields with materials that are large enough in size that the size of the wavelength matters. We will not consider intense laser fields, or the interaction of fields with atoms or small molecules. 

This problem is related to the question of appropriate electronic degeneracy factors in chemical kinetics. Whereas the general belief is that, at very low gas pressures, only the electronic ground state participates in atom recombination and that, in the liquid phase, at least most of the accessible states are coupled somewhere far out on the reaction coordinate, the transition between these two limits as a function of solvent density is by no means understood. Direct evidence for the participation of different electronic states in iodine geminate recombination in the liquid phase comes from picosecond time-resolved transient absorption experiments in solution [40, 44] that demonstrate the participation of the low-lying, weakly bound iodine A and A states, which is also taken into account in recent mixed classical-quantum molecular d5mamics simulations [42. 43]. 

Mixing Classical mechanical system that is ergodic and possesses additional properties associated with relaxation. 

The proper representation of solvents in quantum chemical (QC) calculations is of crucial importance for the future success of QC because the vast majority of technical and biological chemistry takes place in fluid systems, while QC has been developed for isolated molecules for 40 years. Because of the extremely large number of molecules necessary for a realistic description of a solvent environment and the exponential increase of the costs of QC calculations with increasing size of the system, a direct extension of QC to such systems appears to be impossible in general, although first steps towards that goal have been made by the Car-Parrinello method (see Combined Quantum Mechanical and Molecular Mechanical Potentials and Combined Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Mechanics Approaches to Chemical and Biochemical Reactivity). Mixed classical quantum methods could... 

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