Raymond Kapral
Chemistry Library, A.D. Allen
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Dr. Raymond Kapral, working at Department of Chemistry Library, Canada Dr. Raymond Kapral, working at Department of Chemistry Library, Canada
Research Interest
Many chemical systems can be partitioned into a subsystem whose dynamics must be treated quantum mechanically and into an environment which may be accurately treated by classical mechanics. Such open quantum systems arise in numerous contexts; for example, for proton and electron transfer processes in chemical and biological systems. Theoretical approaches are being developed to study the quantum dynamics and quantum statistical mechanics of such systems, especially in regimes where the environment can induce transitions among the quantum degrees of freedom. Methods are being developed to simulate the dynamics of many-body quantum-classical systems and applications are being made to quantum rate processes in bulk condensed phases, micelles, clusters and biological systems.
