Controlling reaction dynamics in chemical model systems through external driving
arXiv:2109.12592 · doi:10.1016/j.physd.2021.133013
Abstract
The rate of a chemical reaction can often be determined by the properties of a rank-1 saddle and the associated transition state separating reactants and products. We have found evidence that such rates can be controlled and even enhanced by external driving in at least one such system. Specifically, we analyze a reactive model in two degrees of freedom that has been used earlier to describe driven chemical reactions. Therein, changes in the external driving can lead to a local maximum of the decay rate constant or even to bifurcations of periodic trajectories on the normally hyperbolic invariant manifold (NHIM) corresponding to the transition state. Inspired by these bifurcations, we show that in this case, the dynamics on the NHIM can be connected to the geometry of reactive trajectories and to reaction probabilities of Maxwell-Boltzmann distributed reactant ensembles.
arXiv commentMain article has 8 pages, 6 figures
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