Abstract
Significant quantum effects in chemistry range from static structure (electronic and geometrical) through dynamical behavior, including optical properties, conductance, relaxation, decoherence, and thermalization. We outline seven situations in which molecular systems exhibit ineluctably quantum behavior. These range from situations in which the community can understand the problem quantitatively and conceptually (for example for dilute sets of spins in NMR) to femtosecond/attosecond situations, which the community understands only primitively. In condensed phase, the dynamics will always evolve in a system/bath environment, and we discuss here how to pose, and to start understanding, problems of that sort. 1876-6196
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 63-81 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Procedia Chemistry |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2011 |
Event | 22nd Solvay Conference on Chemistry - Quantum Effects in Chemistry and Biology - Brussels, Belgium Duration: Oct 13 2010 → Oct 16 2010 |
Funding
We thank Abe Nitzan, Gil Katz, Joe Subotnik, Troy van Voorhis, Stuart Rice, Josef Michl, George Schatz, Shaul Mukamel, Greg Scholes and Graham lF eming for helpful discussions. This material is based upon work supported as part of the NERC, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award Number DE-SC0001059.
Keywords
- Coherence
- Electron transfer
- Electron transport
- Energy transfer
- Excitons
- Relaxation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemistry
- General Chemical Engineering