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Calculations of mutual locations of poles and zeros for these TF models allow to trace dynamics of moving of the parameters (poles and zeros) under increasing loads. Their location regarding to the unit circle could be used for prediction of stability of the system (material behavior) or the process stationary state (absence of AE burst ) [7]. 

Close inspection of equation (A 1.1.45) reveals that, under very special circumstances, the expectation value does not change with time for any system properties that correspond to fixed (static) operator representations. Specifically, if tlie spatial part of the time-dependent wavefiinction is the exact eigenfiinction ). of the Hamiltonian, then Cj(0) = 1 (the zero of time can be chosen arbitrarily) and all other (O) = 0. The second tenn clearly vanishes in these cases, which are known as stationary states. As the name implies, all observable properties of these states do not vary with time. In a stationary state, the energy of the system has a precise value (the corresponding eigenvalue of //) as do observables that are associated with operators that connmite with ft. For all other properties (such as the position and momentum). 

Applications of quantum mechanics to chemistry invariably deal with systems (atoms and molecules) that contain more than one particle. Apart from the hydrogen atom, the stationary-state energies caimot be calculated exactly, and compromises must be made in order to estimate them. Perhaps the most useful and widely used approximation in chemistry is the independent-particle approximation, which can take several fomis. Conuiion to all of these is the assumption that the Hamiltonian operator for a system consisting of n particles is approximated by tlie sum... 

The approximate results can be compared with the long time limit of the exact stationary state solution derived in section A3.4.8.3 ... 

If some of the reactions of (A3.4.138) are neglected in (A3.4.139). the system is called open. This generally complicates the solution of (A3.4.141). In particular, the system no longer has a well defined equilibrium. However, as long as the eigenvalues of K remain positive, the kinetics at long times will be dominated by the smallest eigenvalue. This corresponds to a stationary state solution. 

A] = b/a (equation (A3.4.145)) is stationary and not [A ] itself This suggests d[A ]/dt < d[A]/dt as a more appropriate fomuilation of quasi-stationarity. Furthemiore, the general stationary state solution (equation (A3.4.144)) for the Lindemaim mechanism contams cases that are not usually retained in the Bodenstein quasi-steady-state solution. 

All the previous discussion in this chapter has been concerned with absorption or emission of a single photon. However, it is possible for an atom or molecule to absorb two or more photons simultaneously from a light beam to produce an excited state whose energy is the sum of the energies of the photons absorbed. This can happen even when there is no intemrediate stationary state of the system at the energy of one of the photons. The possibility was first demonstrated theoretically by Maria Goppert-Mayer in 1931 [29], but experimental observations had to await the development of the laser. Multiphoton spectroscopy is now a iisefiil technique [30, 31]. 

In the language of quanPim meehanies, the time-dependent B -field provides a perturbation with a nonvanishing matrix element joining the stationary states a) and P). If the rotating field is written in temis of an amplitude a perturbing temi in tlie Hamiltonian is obtained... 

Note that for a stationary state all parameters satisfy z = 0 and thus y = —Et, yielding the phase-factor exp — iEt as expected. 

Final state analysis is where dynamical methods of evolving states meet the concepts of stationary states. By their definition, final states are relatively long lived. Therefore experiment often selects a single stationary state or a statistical mixture of stationary states. Since END evolution includes the possibility of electronic excitations, we analyze reaction products in terms of rovibronic states. 

In Chapter VI, Ohm and Deumens present their electron nuclear dynamics (END) time-dependent, nonadiabatic, theoretical, and computational approach to the study of molecular processes. This approach stresses the analysis of such processes in terms of dynamical, time-evolving states rather than stationary molecular states. Thus, rovibrational and scattering states are reduced to less prominent roles as is the case in most modem wavepacket treatments of molecular reaction dynamics. Unlike most theoretical methods, END also relegates electronic stationary states, potential energy surfaces, adiabatic and diabatic descriptions, and nonadiabatic coupling terms to the background in favor of a dynamic, time-evolving description of all electrons. 

Bala, R, Lesyng, B., McCammon, J.A. Extended Hellmann-Feynman theorem for non-stationary states and its application in quantum-classical molecular dynamics simulations. Chem. Phys. Lett. 219 (1994) 259-266. 

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. 

Chemical crosslinks and entanglements differ, however. The former is permanent, the latter transient. Given sufficient time, even the effects of entanglements can be overcome and stationary-state flow is achieved. An... 

The concentration of entrapped pairs is assumed to exist at some stationary-state (subscript s) level in which the rates of formation and loss are equal. In this stationary state d[(-A + B-)] /dt = 0 and Eq. (5.6) becomes... 

Polymer propagation steps do not change the total radical concentration, so we recognize that the two opposing processes, initiation and termination, will eventually reach a point of balance. This condition is called the stationary state and is characterized by a constant concentration of free radicals. Under stationary-state conditions (subscript s) the rate of initiation equals the rate of termination. Using Eq. (6.2) for the rate of initiation (that is, two radicals produced per initiator molecule) and Eq. (6.14) for termination, we write... 

This important equation shows that the stationary-state free-radical concentration increases with and varies directly with and inversely with. The concentration of free radicals determines the rate at which polymer forms and the eventual molecular weight of the polymer, since each radical is a growth site. We shall examine these aspects of Eq. (6.23) in the next section. We conclude this section with a numerical example which concerns the stationary-state radical concentration for a typical system. 

For an initiator concentration which is constant at [l]o, the non-stationary-state radical concentration varies with time according to the following expression ... 

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