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All-electronic Nanosecond-resolved Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Facilitating the Investigation of Single Dopant Charge Dynamics
Published on: January 19, 2018
Fingerprints of delocalized transition states in quantum dynamics
Hermann Frank von Horsten1, Guntram Rauhut, Bernd Hartke
1Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Olshausenstrasse 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany.
Abstract:
Reactions with delocalized transition states (plateau reactions) can be characterized statically by their energy profile along the reaction path, where they exhibit a broad, flat region instead of one or several well-defined saddle points on the potential energy surface. Employing our new, highly flexible quantum dynamics code to perform two-dimensional and effective four-dimensional quantum wave packet propagations on ab initio based model potentials, we show that plateau reactions can also be discerned from the other standard reaction types by their dynamics.
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