Dynamics of reactions with two paths
Thomas Bartsch (Loughborough)
Chemical reactions can often be described as crossing an energetic barrier that is marked by a saddle point of the potential energy. The crucial features of the dynamics are mathematically represented by invariant manifolds whose structures are well known in simple cases. It is unknown in more complex situations that involve several saddle points that are connected by intervening saddle points of higher rank. I will present numerical results for a simple two-dimensional model system where the hierarchy of invariant manifolds can be obtained in detail.
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