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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2020
    Description: 〈span〉〈div〉Abstract〈/div〉Three species of 〈span〉Habrostroma〈/span〉 dominate stromatoporoid faunas in the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of five areas in North America: New York, Virginia, Maine, Bathurst Island, and Ellesmere Island. In addition, they occur in what could be the upper Silurian (uppermost Pridoli) of Virginia, and possibly New York. Measurements of nine morphologies from 127 specimens of 〈span〉Habrostroma〈/span〉 were subjected to an average linkage cluster analysis. Using average linkage between groups, three distinct clusters were revealed. Group assignments made from the cluster analysis were saved, and entered into a canonical discriminant analysis with the nine morphological variables. An overall Wilks’ lambda was calculated, and is statistically significant at alpha 〈0.001. The hit rate for classifying group 1 is 98%, that for group 2 is 100%, and that for group 3 is 97.9%; the total hit rate is 100%. The morphological variables contributing most to group membership are: (1) percent cystlike microlaminae, (2) microlaminae per mm, (3) gallery height, (4) laminae per mm, and (5) laminar thickness. The statistics confirm that there are three species: 〈span〉H〈/span〉. 〈span〉centrotum〈/span〉, 〈span〉H〈/span〉. 〈span〉microporum〈/span〉, and 〈span〉H〈/span〉. 〈span〉consimile〈/span〉.〈span〉Habrostroma centrotum〈/span〉 occurs in all five areas. This is unusual because Virginia, New York, and Maine are part of the Eastern Americas Realm, and the arctic islands are part of the Old World Realm. Separation of the realms is based on a high percentage of unique genera in each. A breach in the inter-realm barrier is proposed to have existed across the Canadian Shield during the Lochkovian. The nature of the breach is determined to be a shallow-water filter, allowing the passage of a limited number of taxa.〈/span〉
    Print ISSN: 0022-3360
    Electronic ISSN: 1937-2337
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 1998-03-01
    Description: Two new genera of Upper Silurian stromatoporoids in order Actinostromatida are described. Genus Bicolumnostratum Stock, with type species B. micum (Bogoyavlenskaya), is characterized by two kinds of pillars and nonaligned colliculi, and is assigned to family Actinostromatidae. Genus Acosmostroma Stock, with type species A. ataxium Stock new species, contains irregular micropillars and microcolliculi, and is assigned to family Densastromatidae. Two additional new species are Acosmostroma glascoense Stock and A.? cobleskillense Stock. A fourth species is A. tenuissimum (Parks). Bicolumnostratum is known from Ludlow- and Pridoli-age strata, whereas the occurrences of Acosmostroma are strictly Pridoli in age.
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    Publication Date: 2019-09-18
    Description: Three species of Habrostroma dominate stromatoporoid faunas in the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of five areas in North America: New York, Virginia, Maine, Bathurst Island, and Ellesmere Island. In addition, they occur in what could be the upper Silurian (uppermost Pridoli) of Virginia, and possibly New York. Measurements of nine morphologies from 127 specimens of Habrostroma were subjected to an average linkage cluster analysis. Using average linkage between groups, three distinct clusters were revealed. Group assignments made from the cluster analysis were saved, and entered into a canonical discriminant analysis with the nine morphological variables. An overall Wilks’ lambda was calculated, and is statistically significant at alpha 〈0.001. The hit rate for classifying group 1 is 98%, that for group 2 is 100%, and that for group 3 is 97.9%; the total hit rate is 100%. The morphological variables contributing most to group membership are: (1) percent cystlike microlaminae, (2) microlaminae per mm, (3) gallery height, (4) laminae per mm, and (5) laminar thickness. The statistics confirm that there are three species: H. centrotum, H. microporum, and H. consimile.Habrostroma centrotum occurs in all five areas. This is unusual because Virginia, New York, and Maine are part of the Eastern Americas Realm, and the arctic islands are part of the Old World Realm. Separation of the realms is based on a high percentage of unique genera in each. A breach in the inter-realm barrier is proposed to have existed across the Canadian Shield during the Lochkovian. The nature of the breach is determined to be a shallow-water filter, allowing the passage of a limited number of taxa.
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    The Journal of Chemical Physics 93 (1990), S. 5496-5509 
    ISSN: 1089-7690
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: A theoretical description of secondary emission from complex absorption bands of isolated polyatomic molecules is developed. The strong non-Born–Oppenheimer coupling associated with conical intersections of the multidimensional excited-state potential-energy surfaces is included in a fully microscopic manner by solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for appropriate model systems incorporating the most relevant electronic states and vibrational modes. The effect of the large number of remaining vibrational modes and of the weaker coupling with additional electronic states is modeled by phenomenological relaxation terms (lifetime broadening and pure dephasing) in the framework of the density-matrix formalism. Explicit eigenstate-free expressions for absorption, resonance Raman, and fluorescence spectra are derived via density-matrix perturbation theory. The computational feasibility of the resulting mixed microscopic/phenomenological theory is demonstrated for a simple three-mode model of the vibronic coupling of the S1(nπ*) and S2(ππ*) states of pyrazine. The effect of excited-state vibronic coupling and ultrafast S2→S1 internal conversion on resonance Raman and fluorescence spectra is analyzed on the basis of these model calculations.
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    The Journal of Chemical Physics 90 (1989), S. 7184-7194 
    ISSN: 1089-7690
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: We present a computer simulation of the real-time detection of ultrafast electronic decay dynamics in polyatomic molecules with femtosecond laser pulses. The intramolecular non-Born-Oppenheimer quantum dynamics is treated numerically exactly for a two-state three-mode vibronic coupling model representing the conically intersecting S1 and S2 excited states of pyrazine. The pump–probe signal is evaluated in lowest order perturbation theory with respect to the radiation–matter interaction by numerical integration over the pump and probe pulses. We discuss in some detail the dependence of the pump–probe signal on the properties of the laser pulses (frequencies and pulse durations). The calculations predict a dramatic (∼12 000 cm−1) and ultrafast (∼20 fs) red shift of the stimulated-emission signal as well as distinctive quantum beats in the pump–probe signal as a function of the delay time. Both effects are very pronounced and should therefore be relatively easily detectable experimentally. They are expected to be generic features of ultrafast internal-conversion processes in polyatomic molecules.
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    The Journal of Chemical Physics 116 (2002), S. 69-78 
    ISSN: 1089-7690
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Based on a recently introduced mapping formulation [G. Stock and M. Thoss, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 578 (1997)], a classical phase-space description of vibronically coupled molecular systems is developed. In this formulation the problem of a classical treatment of discrete quantum degrees of freedom such as electronic states is bypassed by transforming the discrete quantum variables to continuous variables. Here the mapping formalism is applied to a spin-boson-type system with a single vibrational mode, e.g., representing the situation of a photo-induced electron transfer promoted by a high-frequency vibrational mode. Studying various Poincaré surfaces-of-section, a detailed phase-space analysis of the mapped two-state problem is given, showing that the model exhibits mixed classical dynamics. Furthermore, a number of periodic orbits (PO's) of the nonadiabatic system are identified. In direct extension of the usual picture of trajectories propagating on a single Born-Oppenheimer surface, these vibronic PO's describe nuclear motion on several coupled potential-energy surfaces. A quasiclassical approximation is derived that expresses time-dependent quantities of a vibronically coupled system in terms of the PO's of the system. As an example, it is demonstrated that vibronic PO's may be used to calculate the time-dependent population probability of the initially excited electronic state. For the system under consideration, already two PO's are sufficient to qualitatively describe the short-time evolution of the nonadiabatic process. © 2002 American Institute of Physics.
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    The Journal of Chemical Physics 114 (2001), S. 2001-2012 
    ISSN: 1089-7690
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    Topics: Physics , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: The quantum-classical Liouville formulation gives a quantum-mechanical density-matrix description of the "quantum" particles of a problem (e.g., the electrons) and a classical phase-space-density description of the "classical" particles (e.g., the nuclei). In order to employ this formulation to describe multidimensional nonadiabatic processes in complex molecular systems, this work is concerned with an efficient Monte Carlo implementation of the quantum-classical Liouville equation. Although an exact stochastic realization of this equation is in principle available, in practice one has to cope with two major complications: (i) The representation of nonlocal phase-space operators in terms of local classical trajectories and (ii) the convergence of the Monte Carlo sampling which is cumbersome due to complex-valued trajectories with rapidly oscillating phases. Several strategies to cope with these problems are discussed, including various approximations to determine the momentum shift associated with a nonadiabatic transition, the on-the-fly generation of new trajectories at curve-crossings, and the localization of trajectories after irreversible electronic transitions. Employing several multidimensional model systems describing ultrafast photoinduced electron transfer and internal conversion, detailed numerical studies are performed which are compared to exact quantum calculations as well as to the "fewest-switches" surface-hopping method. In all cases under consideration, the Liouville calculations are in good agreement with the quantum reference. In particular, the approach is shown to provide a correct quantum-classical description of the electronic coherence. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.
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    The Journal of Chemical Physics 116 (2002), S. 1085-1091 
    ISSN: 1089-7690
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: A quantum-mechanical model description of a molecular photoswitch is developed. It takes into account (i) the electronic curve crossing arising from the cis-trans twisting of a double bond, resulting in an ultrafast internal-conversion process of the system and (ii) the coupling of the initially excited chromophore (the "system") to the remaining degrees of freedom (the "bath"), affecting a vibrational cooling of the hot photoproducts. The latter mechanism is responsible for the localization of the molecule in the cis and trans configuration, respectively, thus determining the quantum yield of the photoreaction. Following a discussion of the validity and the numerical implementation of the Redfield formulation employed, detailed numerical studies of the time-dependent dissipative photoisomerization dynamics are presented. While the short-time dynamics ((approximately-less-than)1 ps) is dominated by the coherent wave-packet motion of the system, the time evolution at larger times mainly reflects the interaction between system and bath. The quantum yield of the cis-trans forward reaction (Yc→t) and the trans-cis backward reaction (Yt→c) is shown to depend on the energy storage of the photoreaction and, in particular, on the form of the system–bath coupling. On the other hand, it is found that Yt→c=1−Yc→t, that is the population probabilities of the cis and trans configuration at long times do not depend on the initial preparation of the system. © 2002 American Institute of Physics.
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    The Journal of Chemical Physics 112 (2000), S. 4910-4922 
    ISSN: 1089-7690
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: An approximate theory of femtosecond spectroscopy of nonadiabatically coupled electronic states is developed. Neglecting the commutators of vibrational Hamiltonians pertaining to different diabatic electronic states, the formulation represents a generalization of the semiclassical Franck–Condon approximation to the case of nonadiabatic dynamics. Explicit expressions for various time- and frequency-resolved spectra are derived which allow for a simple interpretation of femtosecond spectroscopy of vibronically coupled molecular systems. Employing multidimensional model problems describing (i) the nonadiabatic cis–trans isomerization of an electronic two-state system, and (ii) the S2→S1 internal conversion of pyrazine, exact reference data are compared to approximate calculations of transient absorbance and emission as well as time-resolved photoelectron spectra. In all cases considered, the approximation is shown to be appropriate for probe–pulse durations that are shorter than the period of the fastest relevant vibrational mode of the molecular system. Reducing the numerical costs of pump–probe simulations to the costs of a standard time-dependent wave-packet propagation, the approximate theory leads to substantial computational savings. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
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    The Journal of Chemical Physics 101 (1994), S. 246-254 
    ISSN: 1089-7690
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    Topics: Physics , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: It is demonstrated that photoinduced large amplitude (LA) dynamics on a picosecond time scale may result in electronic pure dephasing on a time scale of a few tens of femtoseconds. It is shown that LA photodynamics affects continuous-wave (cw) spectra (e.g., absorption and resonance-Raman) and transient spectra (e.g., photon-echo and pump–probe) in a rather different way. Calculations are presented for a two-dimensional model problem, consisting of a fast vibrational mode and a slow LA mode, which is considered as a simple model for isomerization. The spectroscopic signals for this model are compared to the results for a complementary model, where the fast vibrational mode interacts with a bath (e.g., the environment). It is shown that standard cw techniques such as absorption and resonance-Raman spectroscopy fail to clearly distinguish the two (physically rather different) model problems, as the ultrafast optical dephasing results in strong line broadening of these spectra. Time-resolved pump–probe spectroscopy, on the other hand, is not limited by electronic pure dephasing and thus allows for a clear discrimination of the two photophysical processes. Simulations of photon-echo experiments furthermore elucidate that slow intramolecular LA motion results in inhomogeneous broadening of optical spectra. Finally a novel time-resolved technique is proposed that is capable to reveal "sub-linewidth'' information on electronic transitions which are strongly broadened by homogeneous and inhomogeneous pure dephasing processes.
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