Through incremental change, Nature reworks and repurposes its functional machinery. In
this way, proteins that photochemically repair DNA by moving protons and electrons have a …

The calculation of rate coefficients is a discipline of nonlinear science of importance to much
of physics, chemistry, engineering, and biology. Fifty years after Kramers' seminal paper on …

The electromagnetic field in an optical cavity can dramatically modify and even control
chemical reactivity via vibrational strong coupling (VSC). Since the typical vibration and …

We present an overview of the current status of transition-state theory and its
generalizations. We emphasize (i) recent improvements in available methodology for …

As the world's population increases and substantial industrial growth continues, the energy
demands of society increase rapidly. Although the earth's oil, natural gas, and coal deposits …

We describe a procedure for computing the thermal rate constants for infrequent events that
occur in complicated quantum mechanical systems. Following the ideas of Gillan, the …

The author studies the barrier-crossing rate Gamma for a particle in a symmetric double well
coupled to a sluggish bath; the aim is to justify the quantum simulation procedure used in …

We present accurate fully quantum calculations of thermal rate constants for a symmetric
double well system coupled to a dissipative bath. The calculations are performed using the …

In this short review, we provide an update of recent developments in Kramers' theory of
reaction rates. After a brief introduction stressing the importance of this theory initially …

Motivated by recent experimental efforts to measure the time a molecular system spends in
transit between the reactants and the products of a chemical reaction, here we study the …