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Abstract. This paper presents results from quantum molecular dynamics Simula tions applied to catalytic reactions, focusing on ethylene polymerization by metallocene catalysts. The entire reaction path could be monitored, showing the full molecular dynamics of the reaction. Detailed information on, e.g., the importance of the so-called agostic interaction could be obtained. Also presented are results of static simulations of the Car-Parrinello type, applied to orthorhombic crystalline polyethylene. These simulations for the first time led to a first principles value for the ultimate Young s modulus of a synthetic polymer with demonstrated basis set convergence, taking into account the full three-dimensional structure of the crystal. 

Chapter 8 describes a number of generalized CA models, including reversible CA, coupled-map lattices, quantum CA, reaction-diffusion models, immunologically motivated CA models, random Boolean networks, sandpile models (in the context of self-organized criticality), structurally dynamic CA (in which the temporal evolution of the value of individual sites of a lattice are dynamically linked to an evolving lattice structure), and simple CA models of combat. 

Zhong, A., Rong, C., and Liu, S. 2007. Structural and dynamic properties of (Si02)6 silica nanostructures A quantum molecular dynamics study. J. Phys. Chem. A 111 3132-3136. 

The quantum mechanical forms of the correlation function expressions for transport coefficients are well known and may be derived by invoking linear response theory [64] or the Mori-Zwanzig projection operator formalism [66,67], However, we would like to evaluate transport properties for quantum-classical systems. We thus take the quantum mechanical expression for a transport coefficient as a starting point and then consider a limit where the dynamics is approximated by quantum-classical dynamics [68-70], The advantage of this approach is that the full quantum equilibrium structure can be retained. 

Among fluorescence probes of nucleic acid structure, dynamics, and folding, 2-aminopurine (2AP) is unique in that its introduction into an RNA can often be done with little perturbation of the RNA structure. Whereas other fluorescent nucleotide analogs have higher quantum yields than 2AP, their modifications have the potential to disrupt secondary and... 

Jozef T. Devreese and Piet Van Camp, Electronic Structure, Dynamics, and Quantum Structural Properties of Condensed Matter. Proceedings of the Antwerp Advanced Study Institute held July 16-27, 1984, Priorij Corsendonk, Belgium, in NATO Advanced Science Institutes, Series B Physics, Vol. 121, Plenum, New York, 1985. 

Thus far, the only excited-state structural dynamics of oligonucleotides have come from time-resolved spectroscopy. Very recently, Schreier, et al. [182] have used ultrafast time-resolved infrared (IR) spectroscopy to directly measure the formation of the cyclobutyl photodimer in a (dT)18 oligonucleotide. They found that the formation of the photodimer occurs in 1 picosecond after ultraviolet excitation, consistent with the excited-state structural dynamics derived from the resonance Raman intensities. They conclude that the excited-state reaction is essentially barrierless, but only for those bases with the correct conformational alignment to form the photoproducts. They also conclude that the low quantum yields observed for the photodimer are simply the result of a ground-state population which consists of very few oligonucleotides in the correct alignment to form the photoproducts. 

The only type of chemical reaction we are likely to ever be able to solve rigorously in a quantum mechanical way is a three-body reaction of the type A+BC - AB+C. (See Fig. 5.) The input information to the dynamicist is the potential energy surface computed by the quantum structure chemist. Given this potential surface, we treat the nuclear collision dynamics using Schrodinger s equation to model the chemical reaction process. 

Louie, S. G. (1985) in Electronic Structure, Dynamics, and Quantum Structural Properties of Condensed Matter (J. T. Devreese and P. 

As observed in other systems, the obvious difficulty in elucidating reaction mechanisms based on static structural snapshots subsequently initiated structural-dynamic theoretical studies of metalloproteinases. The active site chemistry of zinc-dependent enzymes has been studied using a variety of theoretical approaches. For example, mixed quantum mechaiucal/molecular calculations and classical molecular dynamic simulations have been employed, especially studies using density functional methods on redox-active metal centers (42). 

As the structure, dynamics and properties are determined by phenomena on many length and time scales physical modelling is subdivided into the quantum mechanical, atomistic, mesoscale, microscale and continuum levels, while research into the way in which these levels are linked is known as hierarchical or multiscale modelling. The typical structural levels arising in the polymer field are shown Figure 1. 

Hence, the chemical structure, dynamics, and spectroscopy of single molecules cannot be rigorously discussed in the present formalism of quantum mechanics and the problem is to construct a quantum theory for individual molecules. One possible starting point is an averaged (e.g., thermal) description and an averaged dynamics over an ensemble of molecules. The average ranges over all the pure states of the molecules in the ensemble. In technical terms, an individual quantum theory is related to a decomposition of nonpure states into pure ones (for a precise definition, see subsequent text). This decomposition is not unique. One... 

Consequently, quantum-classical d mamics does not possess a Lie algebraic structure and this leads to pathologies in the general formulation of quantum-classical dynamics and statistical mechanics as we shall see below [5,6]. 

A major goal of fundamental research aiming to rationalize the interplay of structure, dynamics, and chemical reactivity, is to determine multidimensional potentials for nuclei in various environments. On the one hand, potential surfaces can be calculated with quantum chemistry methods at various levels of approximation. On the other hand, from the experimentalist viewpoint, vibrational spectroscopy techniques can probe dynamics of atoms, molecules and ions, in various states of the matter. However, there are fundamental and technical limitations to the determination of potential hypersurfaces from vibrational spectra of complex systems, and the confrontation of experiments with theory is far from being free of ambiguities. Consequently, the interpretation of vibrational spectra remains largely based on experiments. Recent progress in neutron scattering techniques have revealed new dynamics, specially for... 

Quantum molecular dynamics is a natural offshoot of quantum mechanics whereby the fate of an encounter between atoms or molecules is determined by experiment or by numerical simulation. Simulation essentially involves solution of the Schrodinger equation. The potential energy of interaction is assumed to have already been determined previously by variational techniques and the initial wavefunctions (energy and geometrical structure) of... 

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