ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
MTGLE and Langevin equation stochastic classical trajectory studies of the mobile silver cation channeling and activated barrier crossing processes which underly superionic conduction in α-AgI are presented. To interpret non-Kramers effects on the channeling kinetics, a new description of the condensed phase effect on activated barrier crossing is developed. This picture emphasizes the competition between "whipback'' of the reaction coordinate, arising from instantaneous environmental restoring forces, and frequency-dependent dissipation of reaction coordinate energy due to environmental relaxation. The simulations show that while the roughest features of the channeling trajectories are determined by the cation friction coefficient the finer details are governed by short-time scale cation-cage correlations. Analogously, for α-AgI, the gross features of the kinetics, e.g., the rough extent of the breakdown of the transition state model, are described by a Kramers-like picture. The finer details of the kinetics, however, are governed by the competition between whipback, which makes realistic barrier crossing less efficient than Kramers model barrier crossing, and dissipation, which works in the opposite direction.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.449374
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