PHYSSunday, August 19, 2007

8:20 AM-12:00 PM BCEC -- 158, Oral
Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics: Can One Avoid the Other?
Nonadiabatic Dynamics
Organizers:Jiali Gao
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Presiding:Srinivasan S. Iyengar
8:20 AMDetailed balance and equilibrium in mixed quantum-classical dynamics
J. R. Schmidt, Priya Parandekar, John Tully
9:00 AMElectron transfer, Condon approximations and the nature of accepted fluctuations in simple nonadiabatic processes
Mark A. Ratner
9:40 AMExtended spin-boson model for nonadiabatic hydrogen tunneling in the condensed phase
Alexander V Soudackov, Yasuhito Ohta, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
10:00 AMIntermission
10:20 AMVibronic dynamics via the semiclassical (SC) initial value representation (IVR)
William H. Miller
11:00 AMModeling electronic and vibrational pure dephasing and dissipation dynamics in condensed phase systems
David F. Coker
11:40 AMElectronic dynamics in molecular excited states
Peter J. Rossky

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007