The dissipation of restricted rotation |
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| Authors: | PW Atkins DS Broomhead |
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| Institution: | Physical Chemistry Laboratory , South Parks Road, Oxford |
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| Abstract: | The decay of a classical hindered rotor over the whole domain of motion from almost free overall rotation to harmonic vibration in a well is examined. The decay is described by a modification of a projection operator formalism involving the separation of dynamical and lattice time scales, and depends on a canonical transformation into a hindered rotating frame that rotates and oscillates in accord with the unperturbed equation of motion of two coaxial dipoles. |
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