Relaxation, Spectroscopy and Transport in Liquids

James L. Skinner教授获得了理论与计算化学项目的资助，开发理论模型，帮助化学家解释液体的实验光谱数据。斯金纳将发展解释液体中发生的化学过程的弛豫速率的理论，这些理论可以使用实验光谱技术进行研究，如核磁共振、ESR、振动和光谱学。斯金纳将在统计力学的三个一般领域进行理论研究：1)他将开发描述在核磁共振、ESR、振动和光学光谱中观察到的种群和相松弛的随机模型；2)他将发展一种理论来处理液相中光学光谱测量杂质的线形；3)他将使用一种他命名为量子连通性重整化理论的新方法来研究具有类液体有序模型的局域化。

Professor James L. Skinner is supported by a grant from The Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Program to develop theoretical models which will assist chemists in interpreting experimental spectroscopic data for liquids. Skinner will develop theories for interpreting relaxation rates for chemical processes occuring in liquids which may be studied using experimental spectroscopic techniques such as NMR, ESR, vibrational and optical spectroscopy. Skinner will perform theoretical research in three general areas of statistical mechanics: 1) He will develop stochastic models for describing population and phase relaxation observed in NMR, ESR, vibrational and optical spectroscopy; 2) He will develop a theory to deal with lineshapes of optical spectroscopically measured impurities in the liquid phase; and 3) He will use a new approach which he has named quantum- connectivity- renormalization-theory to study localization in models with liquid-like order.