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In this paper we unveil the geometrical template of phase space structures that governs transport in a Hamiltonian system described by a potential energy surface with an entrance/exit channel and two wells separated by an index-1 saddle.…
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In this paper, we explore the dynamics of a Hamiltonian system after a double van der Waals potential energy surface degenerates into a single well. The energy of the system is increased from the bottom of the potential well up to the…
In this paper we explore the phase space structures governing isomerization dynamics on a potential energy surface with four wells and an index-2 saddle. For this model, we analyze the influence that coupling both degrees of freedom of the…
We study the phase space structures that control the transport in a classical Hamiltonian model for a chemical reaction. This model has been proposed to study the yield of products in an ultracold exothermic reaction. In the considered…
A model Hamiltonian for the reaction CH$_4^+ \rightarrow$ CH$_3^+$ + H, parametrized to exhibit either early or late inner transition states, is employed to investigate the dynamical characteristics of the roaming mechanism. Tight/loose…
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In this paper we analyze a two degree of freedom Hamiltonian system constructed from two planar Morse potentials. The resulting potential energy surface has two potential wells surrounded by an unbounded flat region containing no critical…
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We provide a dynamical interpretation of the recently identified `roaming' mechanism for molecular dissociation reactions in terms of geometrical structures in phase space. These are NHIMs (Normally Hyperbolic Invariant Manifolds) and their…
The escape dynamics in a two-dimensional multiwell potential is explored. A thorough numerical investigation is conducted in several types of two-dimensional planes and also in a three-dimensional subspace of the entire four-dimensional…
We consider issues associated with the Lagrangian characterisation of flow structures arising in aperiodically time-dependent vector fields that are only known on a finite time interval. A major motivation for the consideration of this…
Further thermodynamic investigations into the behaviour of a polar dielectric working fluid under non-equilibrium and negative pressure conditions are reported. The establishment of a long-range van der Waals interaction between clathrate…
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Chemical selectivity is a phenomenon displayed by potential energy surfaces (PES) that is relevant for many organic chemical reactions whose PES feature a valley-ridge inflection point (VRI) in the region between two sequential index-1…