Terminology

Potential energy surface (PES)

Fig. 1: Schematic PES for a multi-well multi-channel system

Fig. 2: Schematic potential energy surface (PES) for an elementary reaction

Reaction Rate Theories

Master Equation

  • EGME- Energy grained master equation

  • CSEs - Chemically significant eigenpairs (eigenvalues)

  • IEREs - Internal energy relaxation eigenpairs (eigenvalues)

Others

rate constant

rate coefficient