Quantum effects in chemistry: Seven sample situations

Mark A. Ratner*, Ronnie Kosloff

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalConference articlepeer-review

1 Scopus citations

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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)63-81
Number of pages19
JournalProcedia Chemistry
Volume3
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event22nd Solvay Conference on Chemistry - Quantum Effects in Chemistry and Biology - Brussels, Belgium
Duration: 13 Oct 201016 Oct 2010

Keywords

  • Coherence
  • Electron transfer
  • Electron transport
  • Energy transfer
  • Excitons
  • Relaxation

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Quantum effects in chemistry: Seven sample situations'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this