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It must be noted that when one speaks about these trajectories one has to assume that they end at the node. As to the node itself, it may be regarded as a special trajectory reduced to one point. Thus, for instance, Fig. 6-1 corresponds to three trajectories AN, BN, and N where by AN and BN we indicate a trajectory excluding the node N. 

Figure 8.8(a) shows a typical example of the phase plane for a system with three stationary solutions, chosen such that there are two stable states and the middle saddle point. The trajectories drawn on to the diagram indicate the direction in which the concentrations will vary from a given starting point. In some cases this movement is towards the state of no conversion (ass = 1, j8ss = 0), in others towards the stable non-zero solution. Only two trajectories approach the saddle point these divide the plane into two and separate those initial conditions which move to one stable state from those which move to the other. These two special trajectories are known as the separatrices of the saddle point. 

Now we use common sense to fill in the rest of the phase portrait (Figure 6.4.6). For example, some of the trajectories starting near the origin must go to the stable node on the x-axis, while others must go to the stable node on the y-axls. In between, there must be a special trajectory that can t decide which way to turn, and so it dives into the saddle point. This trajectory is part of thesZaWe manifold of the saddle, drawn with a heavy line in Figure 6.4.6. 

Thus solutions of the system are typically periodic, except for the equilibrium solutions and two very special trajectories these are the trajectories that appear to start and end at the origin. More precisely, these trajectories approach the origin as t . Trajectories that start and end at the same fixed point are called homoclinic orbits. They are common in conservative systems, but are rare otherwise. Notice that a homoclinic orbit does not conespond to a periodic... 

Fig. 2. Schematic diagram of classical trajectories and the corresponding deflection function for a realistic interatomic potential. Special trajectories which lead to forward rainbow (br) and glory (bt) scattering are marked. In addition the paths contributing to scattering at an angle of observation 9 are drawn.

Equilibrium states, periodic orbits and separatrices of saddles are special trajectories. Together they determine a scheme — a complete topological invariant (see Chap. 1 for details). One may easily conclude that all systems (5-close to a given rough system have the same scheme.,... 

We have already identified the following key elements of any structurally stable dynamical system on the plane which completely determines its entire topological invariant — a scheme. They include special trajectories ... 

Therefore, to study the transition from D to Z>, it is sufficient to examine a one-parameter family of systems such that XyxQ G D. Furthermore, since all qualitative changes in the phase portrait must occur in a small neighborhood of some non-rough special trajectory, we can restrict our consideration to the given neighborhood. 

C.l. 3. cuss the phase portraits of the cells shown in Fig. C.1.1. What are the special trajectories here ... 

Molecular dynamics simulation package with various force field implementations, special support for AMBER. Parallel version and Xll trajectory viewer available. http //ganter.chemie.uni-dortmund.de/MOSCITO/... 

These equations form a fourth-order system of differential equations which cannot be solved analytically in almost all interesting nonseparable cases. Further, according to these equations, the particle slides from the hump of the upside-down potential — V(Q) (see fig. 24), and, unless the initial conditions are specially chosen, it exercises an infinite aperiodic motion. In other words, the instanton trajectory with the required periodic boundary conditions,... 

This separation will allow the students to properly assess the measurement process, which plays a special and complex role in QM that is different from its role in any classical theory. Just as Kepler s laws only cover the free-falling part of the trajectories and the course corrections, essential as they may be, require tabulated data, so too in QM, it should be made clear that the Schrbdinger equation governs the dynamics of QM systems only and measurements, for now, must be treated by separate mles. Thus the problem of inaccurate boundaries of applicability can be addressed by clearly separating the two incompatible principles governing the change of the wave function the Schrbdinger equation for smooth evolution as one, and the measurement process with the collapse of the wave function as the other. 

The point q = p = 0 (or P = Q = 0) is a fixed point of the dynamics in the reactive mode. In the full-dimensional dynamics, it corresponds to all trajectories in which only the motion in the bath modes is excited. These trajectories are characterized by the property that they remain confined to the neighborhood of the saddle point for all time. They correspond to a bound state in the continuum, and thus to the transition state in the sense of Ref. 20. Because it is described by the two independent conditions q = 0 and p = 0, the set of all initial conditions that give rise to trajectories in the transition state forms a manifold of dimension 2/V — 2 in the full 2/V-dimensional phase space. It is called the central manifold of the saddle point. The central manifold is subdivided into level sets of the Hamiltonian in Eq. (5), each of which has dimension 2N — 1. These energy shells are normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds (NHIM) of the dynamical system [88]. Following Ref. 34, we use the term NHIM to refer to these objects. In the special case of the two-dimensional system, every NHIM has dimension one. It reduces to a periodic orbit and reproduces the well-known PODS [20-22]. 

A convenient quantitative characterization of the stable and unstable manifolds themselves as well as of reactive and nonreactive trajectories can be obtained by noting that the special form of the Hamiltonian in Eq. (5) allows one to separate the total energy into a sum of the energy of the reactive mode and the energies of the bath modes. All these partial energies are conserved. The value of the energy... 

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