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1Chemical Physics Theory Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 3H6, Canada.
Abstract:
Decoherence effects on quantum and classical dynamics in reactive scattering are examined using a Caldeira-Leggett type model. Through a study of the dynamics of the collinear H + H2 reaction and the transmission over simple one-dimensional barrier potentials, we show that decoherence leads to improved agreement between quantum and classical reactions and transmission probabilities, primarily by increasing the energy dispersion in a well-defined way. Increased potential nonlinearity is seen to require larger decoherence in order to attain comparable quantum-classical agreement.
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