A Quantum-classical Investigation of Environmental Effects on Electronic Dynamics at Conical Intersections

In this thesis we employ the methods of quantum classical Liouville theory in order to explore the effects of an external environment on electronic dynamics, in systems containing conical intersections. In studying a simple, yet nontrivial, model in the gas phase we find that the short-time dynamics...

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Main Author: Kelly, Aaron
Other Authors: Kapral, Raymond E.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/24783