Advances in Chemical Physics, Advancing Theory for Kinetics and Dynamics of Complex, Many-Dimensional Systems

This series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Volume 145 in the series continues to report recent advances with significant, up-to-date chapters by internationally recognized researchers.

Auteur

Series Editors

Stuart A. Rice received his master's and doctorate from
Harvard University and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard for two years
before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago in
1957 where he remains a well-known theoretical chemist who
also does experimental research and is currently the Frank P. Hixon
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of
Chicago. Professor Rice has served the university in a wide variety
of capacities during his forty-eight year tenure. He served as the
director of the James Franck Institute (the university's center for
physical chemistry and condensed matter physics) from 1961 to 1967,
was Chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1971 to 1976 and
was Dean of the Physical Sciences Division from 1981 to 1995. In
1999 he received the National Medal of Science.

In addition to his work at the University, he is currently on the
Board of Governors at Argonne National Laboratory, managed by and
affiliated with The University of Chicago, as well as Tel Aviv
University. He has served as editor for Chemical Physics
Letters, in addition to the series on Advances in Chemical
Physics. He currently maintains a full research lab but has retired
from teaching classes.

Aaron R. Dinner received his bachelor's degree and
doctorate from Harvard University, after which he conducted
postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford and the
University of California, Berkely. He joined the faculty at the
University of Chicago in 2003 and is the Principal Investigator of
The Dinner Group, which develops and applies theoretical methods
for relating cellular behavior to molecular properties.

Volume Editors

Tamiki Komatsuzaki is a professor at Hokkaido University
in Japan and his research interests include complexity of protein
landscape, conformation network and dynamics, developments of new
methodologies and concepts to bridge molecules and life based on
single molecule time series, information flow across hierarchies of
time and space and its relation to biological functions, and
adaptability, robustness and emergence in complex systems

R. Stephen Berry is James Franck Distinguished Service
Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the James Franck
Institute at the University of Chicago. His research interests
include structures, properties and dynamics of clusters and
biopolymers.

David M. Leitner is a Professor in the Departments of
Theoretical and Biophysical Chemistry and Chemical Physics at the
University of Nevada, Reno. His research interests include how
energy flows within a molecule mediates the rate at which it reacts
both in gas and condensed phases.

Contenu

Preface xi

Non-Markovian Theory of Vibrational Energy Relaxation and its Applications to Biomolecular Systems 1
By Hiroshi Fujisaki, Yong Zhang, and John E. Straub

Protein Functional Motions: Basic Concepts and Computational Methodologies 35
By Sotaro Fuchigami, Hiroshi Fujisaki, Yasuhiro Matsunaga, and Akinori Kidera

Non-Brownian Phase Space Dynamics of Molecules, the Nature of Their Vibrational States, and Non-RRKM Kinetics 83
By David M. Leitner, Yasuhiro Matsunaga, Chun-Biu Li, Tamiki Komatsuzaki, Akira Shojiguchi, and Mikito Toda

Dynamical Reaction Theory Based on Geometric Structures in Phase Space 123
By Shinnosuke Kawai, Hiroshi Teramoto, Chun-Biu Li, Tamiki Komatsuzaki, and Mikito Toda

Ergodic Problems for Real Complex Systems in Chemical Physics 171
By Tamiki Komatsuzaki, Akinori Baba, Shinnosuke Kawai, Mikito Toda, John E. Straub, and R. Stephen Berry

Author Index 221

Subject Index 247