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Transition state theory for activated systems with driven anharmonic barriers
Year:2018

Research Areas
  • Physics chemical and mathematical

Information
Abstract
Classical transition state theory has been extended to address chemical reactions across barriers that are driven and anharmonic. This resolves a challenge to the naive theory that necessarily leads to recrossings and approximate rates because it relies on a fixed dividing surface. We develop both perturbative and numerical methods for the computation of a time-dependent recrossing-free dividing surface for a model anharmonic system in a solvated environment that interacts strongly with an oscillatory external field. We extend our previous work, which relied either on a harmonic approximation or on periodic force driving. We demonstrate that the reaction rate, expressed as the long-time flux of reactive trajectories, can be extracted directly from the stability exponents, namely, Lyapunov exponents, of the moving dividing surface. Comparison to numerical results demonstrates the accuracy and robustness of this approach for the computation of optimal (recrossing-free) dividing surfaces and reaction rates in systems with Markovian solvation forces. The resulting reaction rates are in strong agreement with those determined from the long-time flux of reactive trajectories.
International
Si
Congress
TraX International Conference 2018 [http://www.gsc.upm.es/trax2018/]
960
Place
Cantoblanco, Madrid (Spain)
Reviewers
Si
ISBN/ISSN
CDP08UPM
Start Date
09/05/2018
End Date
10/05/2018
From page
42
To page
42
TraX International Conference 2018. Book of Abstracts [http://www.gsc.upm.es/trax2018/trax2018.pdf]
Participants
  • Autor: Fabio Revuelta Peña UPM
  • Autor: Galen Craven University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Autor: Thomas Bartsch Loughborough University, UK
  • Autor: Florentino Borondo Rodríguez Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Autor: Rosa Maria Benito Zafrilla UPM
  • Autor: Rigoberto Hernández Johns Hopkins University, USA

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Sistemas Complejos