Quantum uniqueness

While not unique, the Scluodinger picture of quantum mechanics is the most familiar to chemists principally because it has proven to be the simplest to use in practical calculations. Hence, the remainder of this section will focus on the Schrodinger fomuilation and its associated wavefiinctions, operators and eigenvalues. Moreover, effects associated with the special theory of relativity (which include spin) will be ignored in this subsection. Treatments of alternative fomuilations of quantum mechanics and discussions of relativistic effects can be found in the reading list that accompanies this chapter. 

Although not a unique prescription, the quantum-mechanical operators A can be obtained from their classical counterparts A by making the substitutions x x (coordinates) t t (time) p -Uid/dq (component of... 

The index for the orbital ( ). (r) can be taken to include the spin of the electron plus any other relevant quantum numbers. The index runs over the number of electrons, each electron being assigned a unique set of quantum... 

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The hydrogen atom presented a unique opportunity in the development of quantum mechanics. The single electron moves in a coulombic field, free from fhe effecfs of infer-elecfron repulsions. This has fwo imporfanf consequences fhaf do nof apply fo any atom wifh fwo or more elecfrons ... 

A final important area is the calculation of free energies with quantum mechanical models [72] or hybrid quanmm mechanics/molecular mechanics models (QM/MM) [9]. Such models are being used to simulate enzymatic reactions and calculate activation free energies, providing unique insights into the catalytic efficiency of enzymes. They are reviewed elsewhere in this volume (see Chapter 11). 

The intensely developing technique of high-resolution IR-spectroscopy of dimers composed of two different molecules in supersonic cooled jets offers a new promising approach to the quantum dynamics of reaction complexes. In essence, this is a unique possibility of modelling low-temperature chemical reactions. 

It is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics that electrons bound in an atom can have only discrete energy values. Thus, when an electron strikes an atom its electrons can absorb energy from the incident electron in specific, discrete amounts. As a result the scattered incident electron can lose energy only in specific amounts. In EELS an incident electron beam of energy Eq bombards an atom or collection of atoms. After the interaction the energy loss E of the scattered electron beam is measured. Since the electronic energy states of different elements, and of a single element in different chemical environments, are unique, the emitted beam will contain information about the composition and chemistry of the specimen. 

This journal issue features the many unusual properties of carbon nanotubes. Most of these unusual properties are a direct consequence of their ID quantum behavior and symmetry properties, including their unique conduction propertiesjll] and their unique vibrational spectra[8]. 

These properties are illustrative of the unique behavior of ID systems on a rolled surface and result from the group symmetry outlined in this paper. Observation of ID quantum effects in carbon nanotubes requires study of tubules of sufficiently small diameter to exhibit measurable quantum effects and, ideally, the measurements should be made on single nanotubes, characterized for their diameter and chirality. Interesting effects can be observed in carbon nanotubes for diameters in the range 1-20 nm, depending... 

The unique electronic properties of CNTs are due to the quantum confinement of electrons normal to the CNT axis. In the radial direction, electrons are... 

The fourth quantum number is called the spin angular momentum quantum number for historical reasons. In relativistic (four-dimensional) quantum mechanics this quantum number is associated with the property of symmetry of the wave function and it can take on one of two values designated as -t-i and — j, or simply a and All electrons in atoms can be described by means of these four quantum numbers and, as first enumerated by W. Pauli in his Exclusion Principle (1926), each electron in an atom must have a unique set of the four quantum numbers. 

There is a qualitative universality in the quantum behavior of class-3 rules, whose threshold plots typically consist of strong local oscillation patterns. Although clearly a maJiifestation of the fundamental additivity of probability amplitudes, the majority of patterns also possess distinctive local regularities by which evolutions defined by particular rules can be uniquely identified characteristic features of the... 

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Labarre JF (1978) Conformational Analysis in Inorganic Chemistry Semi-Empirical Quantum Calculation vs. Experiment. 35 1-35 Lammers M, Follmann H (1983) The Ribonucleotide Reductases A Unique Group of Metalloenzymes Essential for Cell Proliferation. 54 27-91 Le Brun NE, Thomson AJ, Moore GR (1997) Metal Centres of Bacterioferritins of Non-Heam-Iron-Containing Cyrochromes 6557. 88 103-138... 

We have demonstrated that large-scale quantum-chemical calculations using supercomputers are capable of providing new and unique information about large molecular systems, which wouid have been very difficult to obtain with other means. 

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