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Statement (a) is based on the fact that it orbitals have a nodal plane in the plane of the molecule (or the unsaturated or conjugated part of it) 

If the n electrons were strictly outside the a electron cloud, the potential created by the n charge distribution at the position of the a electrons would practically vanish, at least in non-polar molecules. This results from the fact that the repulsive electrostatic potential due to one lobe of the n charge distribution is nearly cancelled by the potential of the other lobe, except at the end of the molecule. Then the effective Hamiltonian governing the motion of the o electrons (in the frame of the r—n separation) would be practically the same as that of the ion in which all the n electrons are ionized away. The presence of the n electrons would be felt very little by the a electrons, except in systems with highly polar a bonds. Then, an iterative procedure adjusting successively the a charges to the n charges and vice versa would not be necessary, and one 

Briefly, it may be stated that there is a large overlap between r and n densities, but the o cloud is closer to the molecular plane than the n cloud and that the influence of the a electrons on the n electrons is more pronounced than the reverse effect. 

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Greenleaf, J.F. Johnson S.A. Samayoa, W.F. and Duck, F.A. (1975). Algebraic reconstruction of spatial distributions of acoustic velocities in tissue from their time-of-flight profiles. In Acoustical Holography, Vol. 6, Ed. N. Booth, Plenum Press, 71-90. 

Knowing the energy distributions of electrons, (k), and the spatial distribution of electrons, p(r), is important in obtaining the structural and electronic properties of condensed matter systems. 

Figure Al.3.22. Spatial distributions or charge densities for carbon and silicon crystals in the diamond structure. The density is only for the valence electrons the core electrons are omitted. This charge density is from an ab initio pseudopotential calculation [27].

The most popular of the scanning probe tecimiques are STM and atomic force microscopy (AFM). STM and AFM provide images of the outemiost layer of a surface with atomic resolution. STM measures the spatial distribution of the surface electronic density by monitoring the tiumelling of electrons either from the sample to the tip or from the tip to the sample. This provides a map of the density of filled or empty electronic states, respectively. The variations in surface electron density are generally correlated with the atomic positions. 

AFM measures the spatial distribution of the forces between an ultrafme tip and the sample. This distribution of these forces is also highly correlated with the atomic structure. STM is able to image many semiconductor and metal surfaces with atomic resolution. AFM is necessary for insulating materials, however, as electron conduction is required for STM in order to achieve tiumelling. Note that there are many modes of operation for these instruments, and many variations in use. In addition, there are other types of scaiming probe microscopies under development. 

Diflfiisive processes nonnally operate in chemical systems so as to disperse concentration gradients. In a paper in 1952, the mathematician Alan Turing produced a remarkable prediction [37] that if selective diffiision were coupled with chemical feedback, the opposite situation may arise, with a spontaneous development of sustained spatial distributions of species concentrations from initially unifonn systems. Turmg s paper was set in the context of the development of fonn (morphogenesis) in embryos, and has been adopted in some studies of animal coat markings. With the subsequent theoretical work at Brussels [1], it became clear that oscillatory chemical systems should provide a fertile ground for the search for experimental examples of these Turing patterns. 

A microbe employs a focused beams of energetic ions, to provide infomiation on the spatial distribution of elements at concentration levels that range from major elements to a few parts per million [27]. The range of teclmiques available that allowed depth infomiation plus elemental composition to be obtained could all be used in exactly the same way it simply became possible to obtain lateral infomiation simultaneously. 

The anisotropy of the product rotational state distribution, or the polarization of the rotational angular momentum, is most conveniently parametrized tluough multipole moments of the distribution [45]. Odd multipoles, such as the dipole, describe the orientation of the angidar momentum /, i.e. which way the tips of the / vectors preferentially point. Even multipoles, such as the quadnipole, describe the aligmnent of /, i.e. the spatial distribution of the / vectors, regarded as a collection of double-headed arrows. Orr-Ewing and Zare [47] have discussed in detail the measurement of orientation and aligmnent in products of chemical reactions and what can be learned about the reaction dynamics from these measurements. 

Also produced in electronic structure sunulations are the electronic waveftmctions and energies F ] of each of the electronic states. The separation m energies can be used to make predictions on the spectroscopy of the system. The waveftmctions can be used to evaluate the properties of the system that depend on the spatial distribution of the electrons. For example, the z component of the dipole moment [10] of a molecule can be computed by integrating... 

Most of our ideas about carrier transport in semiconductors are based on tire assumption of diffusive motion. Wlren tire electron concentration in a semiconductor is not unifonn, tire electrons move diffuse) under tire influence of concentration gradients, giving rise to an additional contribution to tire current. In tliis motion, electrons also undergo collisions and tlieir temporal and spatial distributions are described by the diffusion equation. The... 

Analogous considerations apply to spatially distributed reacting media where diffusion is tire only mechanism for mixing chemical species. Under equilibrium conditions any inhomogeneity in tire system will be removed by diffusion and tire system will relax to a state where chemical concentrations are unifonn tliroughout tire medium. However, under non-equilibrium conditions chemical patterns can fonn. These patterns may be regular, stationary variations of high and low chemical concentrations in space or may take tire fonn of time-dependent stmctures where chemical concentrations vary in botli space and time witli complex or chaotic fonns. 

In tills chapter we shall examine how such temporal and spatial stmctures arise in far-from-equilibrium chemical systems. We first examine spatially unifonn systems and develop tlie tlieoretical tools needed to analyse tlie behaviour of systems driven far from chemical equilibrium. We focus especially on tlie nature of chemical chaos, its characterization and the mechanisms for its onset. We tlien turn to spatially distributed systems and describe how regular and chaotic chemical patterns can fonn as a result of tlie interjilay between reaction and diffusion. 

Consider the analogue of such a bifurcation in a spatially distributed system and imagine tuning a bifurcation... 

Our understanding of the development of oscillations, multi-stability and chaos in well stirred chemical systems and pattern fonnation in spatially distributed systems has increased significantly since the early observations of these phenomena. Most of this development has taken place relatively recently, largely driven by development of experimental probes of the dynamics of such systems. In spite of this progress our knowledge of these systems is still rather limited, especially for spatially distributed systems. 

However, in many applications the essential space cannot be reduced to only one degree of freedom, and the statistics of the force fluctuation or of the spatial distribution may appear to be too poor to allow for an accurate determination of a multidimensional potential of mean force. An example is the potential of mean force between two ions in aqueous solution the momentaneous forces are two orders of magnitude larger than their average which means that an error of 1% in the average requires a simulation length of 10 times the correlation time of the fluctuating force. This is in practice prohibitive. The errors do not result from incorrect force fields, but they are of a statistical nature even an exact force field would not suffice. 

This spatial distribution is not stationary but evolves in time. So in this ease, one has a wavefunetion that is not a pure eigenstate of the Hamiltonian (one says that E is a superposition state or a non-stationary state) whose average energy remains eonstant (E=E2,i ap + El 2 bp) but whose spatial distribution ehanges with time. 

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