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Yarkony D R 1995 Electronic structure aspects of nonadiabatic processes in polyatomic systems Modern Electronic Structure Theory vo 2, ed D R Yarkony (Singapore World Scientific) pp 642-721... 

Stock G and Thoss M 1997 Semiclassical description of nonadiabatic quantum dynamics Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 578... 

Zhu C and Nakamura H 1994 Theory of nonadiabatic transition for general curved potentials I. J. Chem. Phys. 101 10 630... 

In the nonrelativistic case much has been, and continues to be, learned about the outcome of nonadiabatic processes from the locus and topography of seams of conical intersection. It will now be possible to describe nonadiabatic processes driven by conical intersections, for which the spin-orbit interaction cannot be neglected, on the same footing that has been so useful in the nonrelativistic case. This fully adiabatic approach offers both conceptual and potential computational... 

Thus, the neglect of the off-diagonal matrix elements allows the change from mixed states of the nuclear subsystem to pure ones. The motion of the nuclei leads only to the deformation of the electronic distribution and not to transitions between different electronic states. In other words, a stationary distribution of electrons is obtained for each instantaneous position of the nuclei, that is, the elechons follow the motion of the nuclei adiabatically. The distribution of the nuclei is described by the wave function x (R i) in the potential V + Cn , known as the proper adiabatic approximation [41]. The off-diagonal operators C n in the matrix C, which lead to transitions between the states v / and t / are called operators of nonadiabaticity and the potential V = (R) due to the mean field of all the electrons of the system is called the adiabatic potential. 

SPACEEIL has been used to study polymer dynamics caused by Brownian motion (60). In another computer animation study, a modified ORTREPII program was used to model normal molecular vibrations (70). An energy optimization technique was coupled with graphic molecular representations to produce animations demonstrating the behavior of a system as it approaches configurational equiHbrium (71). In a similar animation study, the dynamic behavior of nonadiabatic transitions in the lithium—hydrogen system was modeled (72). 

The problem of nonadiabatic tunneling in the Landau-Zener approximation has been solved by Ovchinnikova [1965]. For further refinements of the theory beyond this approximation see Laing et al. [1977], Holstein [1978], Coveney et al. [1985], Nakamura [1987]. The nonadiabatic transition probability for a more general case of dissipative tunneling is derived in appendix B. We quote here only the result for the dissipationless case obtained in the Landau-Zener limit. When < F (Xe), the total transition probability is the product of the adiabatic tunneling rate, calculated in the previous sections, and the Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg-like factor... 

The problem of nonadiabatic tunneling has been already formulated in section 3.5, and in this subsection we study how dissipation affects the conclusions drawn there. The two-state Hamiltonian for the system coupled to a bath is conveniently rewritten via the Pauli matrices... 

In this appendix we shall show how the quasienergy ideas developed in section 5 can be applied to the problem of nonadiabatic tunneling. We use the Imf approach of section 3.3 for the multidimensional system with Hamiltonian... 

The factor k takes into acount the effects of nonadiabatic transition and tunneling properly. Also note that the electronic coupling //ad is assumed to be constant in the Marcus formula, but this is not necessary in the present formulation. The coupling Had cancels out in k of Eq. (126) and the ZN probability can be calculated from the information of adiabatic potentials. 

The electron transfer discussed above corresponds to the so-called normal case in which the NT type of nonadiabatic transition plays the essential role. There is another important case called inverted case, in which the LZ type of nonadiabatic transition plays a role. Since the ZN theory can describe this type of transition also, the corresponding electron-transfer theory can be formulated [114]. On the other hand, the realistic electron transfer occurs in solution and... 

Note again that the parameters of the optimal laser pulses can be estimated from the ZN theory of nonadiabatic transition regardless of the dimensionality of the system. 

Nonadiabatic transitions definitely play crucial roles for molecules to manifest various functions. The theory of nonadiabatic transition is very helpful not only to comprehend the mechanisms, but also to design new molecular functions and enhance their efficiencies. The photochromism that is expected to be applicable to molecular switches and memories is a good example [130]. Photoisomerization of retinal is well known to be a basic mechanism of vision. In these processes, the NT type of nonadiabatic transitions play essential roles. There must be many other similar examples. Utilization of the complete reflection phenomenon can also be another candidate, as discussed in Section V.C. In this section, the following two examples are cosidered (1) photochromism due to photoisomerization between cyclohexadiene (CHD) and hexatriene (HT) as an example of photoswitching molecular functions, and (2) hydrogen transmission through a five-membered carbon ring. 

In all these studies mentioned above, the ZN theory of nonadiabatic transition can be very useful, as discussed in this chapter. 

The author would like to thank all the group members in the past and present who carried out all the researches discussed in this chapter Drs. C. Zhu, G. V. Mil nikov, Y. Teranishi, K. Nagaya, A. Kondorskiy, H. Fujisaki, S. Zou, H. Tamura, and P. Oloyede. He is indebted to Professors S. Nanbu and T. Ishida for their contributions, especially on molecular functions and electronic structure calculations. He also thanks Professor Y. Zhao for his work on the nonadiabatic transition state theory and electron transfer. The work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research on Studies of Nonadiabatic Chemical Dynamics based on the Zhu-Nakamura Theory from MEXT of Japan. 

Conical intersections are involved in other types of chemistry in addition to photochemistry. Photochemical reactions are nonadiabatic because they involve at least two potential energy surfaces, and decay from the excited state to the ground state takes place as shown, for example, in Figure 9.2a. However, there are also other types of nonadiabatic chemistry, which start on the ground state, followed by an ex-cnrsion npward onto the excited state (Fig. 9.2b). Electron transfer problems belong to this class of nonadiabatic chemistry, and we have documented conical intersection... 

We now turn to an example of nonadiabatic chemistry where the nonadiabatic process starts on the ground state, and is followed by an excursion upward onto the excited state electron transfer (see references 2-5). 

Lischka H, Dallos M, Szalay PG, Yarkony DR, Shepard R (2004) Analytic evaluation of nonadiabatic coupling terms at the MR-CI level. I. Formalism. J Chem Phys 120 7322... 

Even in reactions involving excited states or in reactions between two radicals, the primary interaction which determines the reactivity is thought to proceed adiabatically. The probability of nonadiabatic charge transfer also may not be ignored between a molecular specie with small ionization potential and a specie with large electron affinity, in particular in the form of free, gaseous, or nonsolvated state. In that... 

Samanta, A. A., and S. K. Gosh. 1995. Density functional approach to the solvent effects on the dynamics of nonadiabatic electron transfer reactions. J. Chem. Phys. 102, 3172. 

Marcus uses the Born-Oppenheimer approximation to separate electronic and nuclear motions, the only exception being at S in the case of nonadiabatic reactions. Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics is used to calculate the probability of arriving at the activated complex only vibrational quantum effects are treated approximately. The result is... 

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