The separation of electronic,
rovibrational and translational motion greatly
simplifies the analysis of molecular dynamics. However,
there are plenty of situations where adiabaticity
concepts like the Born-Oppenheimer approximation break
down and nonadiabatic processes play a dominant role.
This International Bunsen Discussion focuses on
nonadiabatic effects in chemical kinetics, dynamics and
spectroscopy and brings together theoreticians and
experimentalists interested in an understanding of the
relevance of such phenomena. Applications reach from
photophysics and spectroscopy to elementary gas phase
reactions, gas-surface processes and spin effects in
physical organic chemistry. The meeting takes place in
the town where the Born-Oppenheimer approximation was
formulated first.
Topics
- Theoretical concepts of adiabaticity
- Nonadiabatic effects in elementary gas phase
reactions
- Nonadiabatic processes in physical organic
chemistry
- Nonadiabatic effects in spectroscopy
- Nonadiabatic phenomena in gas-surface processes
Invited Speakers
- L. Cederbaum (Heidelberg)
- W. Domcke (München)
- L. Halonen (Helsinki)
- J. Harvey (Leuven)
- E. Hasselbrink (Essen)
- A. Kandratsenka (Göttingen)
- A. Maergoiz (Göttingen)
- F. Merkt (Zürich)
- H. Nienhaus (Duisburg)
- E. Nikitin (Haifa)
- M. Quack (Zürich)
- P. Saalfrank (Potsdam)
- T. Schäfer (Göttingen)
- H. Schwarz (Berlin)
- S. Shaik (Jerusalem)
- Martin Suhm (Göttingen)
- A. Viggiano (Albuquerque)
- Xueming Yang (Dalian)
