Advances in Chemical Physics, Advancing Theory for Kinetics and Dynamics of Complex, Many-Dimensional Systems: Clusters and Proteins (Volume 145)

This series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Volume 145 in the series continues to report recent advances with significant, up-to-date chapters by internationally recognized researchers. The simple molecular dynamics used to describe small molecules and chemical kinetics prove insufficient when applied to large, complex molecules such as those found in biology or nanoscale materials. Japanese and US molecular biologists, chemists, and physicists present some of the theoretical and computational methods that have been developed recently to address the challenge. They discuss non-Markovian theory of vibrational energy relaxation and its applications to biomolecular systems; basic concepts and computational methodologies of protein functional motions; non-Brownian phase space dynamics of molecules, the nature of their vibrational states, and non-RRKM (Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus) kinetics; dynamical reaction theory based on geometric structures in phase space; and ergodic problems for real complex systems in chemical physics. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Non-Markovian theory of vibrational energy relaxation and its applications to biomolecular systems / Hiroshi Fujisaki, Yong Zhang, John E Straub Protein functional motions : basic concepts and computational methodologies / Sotaro Fuchigami ... [et al.] Non-Brownian phase space dynamics of molecules, the nature of their vibrational states, and non-RRKM kinetics / David M Leitner ... [et al.] Dynamical reaction theory based on geometric structures in phase space / Shinnosuke Kawai ... [et al.] Ergodic problems for real complex systems in chemical physics / Tamiki Komatsuzaki ... [et al.].