title: Fingerprints of delocalized transition states in quantum dynamics.
abstract: Reactions with delocalized transition states (plateau reactions) can be characterized statically by their energy profile along the reaction path, where they exhibit a broad, flat region instead of one or several well-defined saddle points on the potential energy surface. Employing our new, highly flexible quantum dynamics code to perform two-dimensional and effective four-dimensional quantum wave packet propagations on ab initio based model potentials, we show that plateau reactions can also be discerned from the other standard reaction types by their dynamics.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Olshausenstrasse 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany.
authors.forename: Hermann Frank
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: von Horsten
authors.forename: Guntram
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rauhut
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hartke