Roaming at Constant Kinetic Energy: Chesnavich's Model and the Hamiltonian Isokinetic Thermostat

Vladimír Krajňák, Gregory S. Ezra, Stephen Wiggins

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Abstract

We consider the roaming mechanism for chemical reactions under the nonholonomic constraint of constant kinetic energy. Our study is carried out in the context of the Hamiltonian isokinetic thermostat applied to Chesnavich's model for an ion-molecule reaction. Through an analysis of phase space structures we show that imposing the nonholonomic constraint does not prevent the system from exhibiting roaming dynamics, and that the origin of the roaming mechanism turns out to be analogous to that found in the previously studied Hamiltonian case.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)615-627
Number of pages13
JournalRegular and Chaotic Dynamics
Volume24
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Dec 2019

Keywords

  • nonholonomic constraint
  • phase space structures
  • invariant manifolds
  • chemical reaction
  • roaming

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