Geometric Structures of Phase Space in Multi-Dimensional Chaos (eBook)

Stuart Rice is Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the James Franck Institute and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago.

PART I PHASE-SPACE GEOMETRY OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
AND REACTION PROCESSES.

Chapter 1 Classical, Semiclassical, and Quantum Mechanical
Unimolecular Reaction Rate Theory (Meishan Zhao, Jiangbin Gong, and
Stuart A. Rice).

Chapter 2 Regularity in Chaotic Transitions on Two-Basin
Landscapes (Tamiki Komatsuzaki and R. Stephen Berry).

Chapter 3 A New Look at the Transition State: Wigner's
Dynamical Perspective Revisited (Charles Jaffe´, Shinnosuke
Kawai, Jesus Palacian, Patricia Yanguas, and Turgay Uzer).

Chapter 4 Geometry of Phase-Space Transition States: Many
Dimensions, Angular Momentum (Laurent Wiesenfeld).

Chapter 5 Intramolecular Dynamics Along Isomerization and
Dissociation Pathways (Marc Joyeux, Sergy Yu. Grebenshchikov, Jens
Bredenbeck, Reinhard Schinke, and Stavros C. Farantos).

Chapter 6 Classical Coulomb Three-Body Problem (Mitsusada M.
Sano).

Chapter 7 Global Aspects of Chemical Reactions in
Multidimensional Phase Space (Mikito Toda).

Chapter 8 Classical Mechanism of Multidimensional Barrier
Tunneling (Kinya Takahashi and Kensuke S. Ikeda).

Chapter 9 Coarse-Grained Picture for Controlling Quantum Chaos
(Toshiya Takami, Hiroshi Fujisaki, and Takayuki Miyadera).

Author Index.

Subject Index.