Relaxation, Spectroscopy and Transport in Liquids

詹姆斯·L·斯金纳教授得到了理论和计算化学计划的资助，以开发理论模型，帮助化学家解释液体的实验光谱数据。斯金纳将开发解释液体中发生的化学过程的松弛速率的理论，这些松弛速率可以使用实验光谱技术，如核磁共振、电子自旋共振、振动和光学光谱进行研究。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、电子自旋共振、振动和光学光谱中观察到的布居和相弛豫的随机模型；2)他将开发一种理论来处理通过光学光谱测量的杂质在液体中的线型；3)他将使用一种被他命名为量子连接性重整化理论的新方法来研究具有类液体有序的模型中的局域化。

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.