Chemistry553

Course Syllabus

Chandrasekahr Review

Lecture Material

3/28 The Diffusion Equation	3/30 Characteristic Function	4/01 Random Flight Polymers
4/04 Langevin 1: Displacement and Equilibrated Velocity	4/06 Langevin 2: Autocorrelation Functions	4/08 Langevin 3: Restoring Forces
4/11 Wiener-Khinchin Thm.	4/13 Chapman-Kolmogorov Thm	4/15 Discrete Site Exchange.
4/18 Fokker-Planck Eqn.	4/20 FPE: Drag & Drift	4/22 Wiener Process
4/25 Hindered Diffusion	4/27 Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process	4/29 Barrier Crossing: Kramers Escape Rate
5/02 Linear Response Function	5/04 Complex Susceptibility	5/06 Fluctuation-Dissipation
5/09 Causal Functions	5/11 Kramers-Kronig Relations	5/13 Quantum Systems
5/16 Quantum Fluctuation-Dissipation	5/18 Spectroscopic Line Shapes	5/20 Kubo's Stochastic Line Shape Theory
5/23 Stochastic Liouville eqn.	5/25 Intro. to Redfield theory	5/27
5/30 Holiday	6/01 Redfield Theory: Relaxation by Random Field	6/03 Nuclear Spin Relaxation
6/06 Paper Due	6/07 Final Due	6/10

HW_4 has a correction to the escape rate expression in problem 4. I also checked Problem 3b and there is a sign change in part b. That should make the problem work out for you ...