The Flux-Flux Correlation Function for Anharmonic Barriers

Details The Flux-Flux Correlation Function for Anharmonic Barriers The Flux-Flux Correlation Function for Anharmonic Barriers

2010-09-24

arxiv.org/abs/1009.4872v1

J. Chem. Phys. 133, 244113 (2010)

Physics

Chemical Physics

9 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3518425

The flux-flux correlation function formalism is a standard and widely used approach for the computation of reaction rates. In this paper we introduce a method to compute the classical and quantum flux-flux correlation functions for anharmonic barriers essentially analytically through the use of the classical and quantum normal forms. In the quantum case we show that the quantum normal form reduces the computation of the flux-flux correlation function to that of an effective one dimensional anharmonic barrier. The example of the computation of the quantum flux-flux correlation function for a fourth order anharmonic barrier is worked out in detail, and we present an analytical expression for the quantum mechanical microcanonical flux-flux correlation function. We then give a discussion of the short-time and harmonic limits.

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