2Physics
(of a theory or method) intermediate between a classical or Newtonian description and one based on quantum mechanics or relativity.
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- We demonstrate that the classical and semiclassical models provide a physically reasonable estimate of both the timescale of vibrational relaxation and the pathways of the energy flow.
- Rotational contributions were estimated in the semiclassical approximation for the free rotor considering both monomers and dimers as rigid molecules.
- A semiclassical analysis of the electronic transition process indicates that a significant fraction of the S 1 population decays to S 0 at each crossing point.
- One might have anticipated that the nature of very low-frequency modes might be amenable to semiclassical analysis.
- It remains the case that most people are quite skeptical that we will ever make sense of the Euclidean path integral, especially in the semi-classical regime.