Violation of microscopic reversibility and the use of reverse quais-classical trajectories for calculating reaction cross sections |
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Authors: | Joel M Bowman George C Schatz Aron Kupperman |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto Canada |
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Abstract: | In order to calculate the transition probabilities (or cross sections) for reactive collisions, such as A + BC(ν, j)→ AB(ν′, j) + C, using the quasi-classical trajectory method, one quantizes the internal energy of the reagents and in addition adopts some algorithm for calculating the internal quantum numbers of the products. A serious consequence of this procedure is that the quasi-classical results do not obey microscopic reversibility. It is shown that for the collinear F + H2(ν = 0) → FH(ν = 2, 3)+ H reaction (and its D2 counterpart), the quasi-classical trajectory probabilities for the reverse reaction not only differ substantially from the forward ones but in general are in much better agreement with accurate quantum calculations. A similar situation was found for the collinear H + H2(0) → H2(1) + H reaction. We suggest that in doing quasi-classical calculations, the reverse of the process of interest should also be considered. Comparison of forward and reverse quasi-classical collinear calculations with accurate collinear quantum results could give an indication of whether forward or reverse calculations should be used for the three-dimensional case. |
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