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