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Thermal Rate Coefficients for the N + N 2 Reaction: Quasiclassical, Semiclassical and Quantum Calculations

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The thermal rate constants for the N +N 2 gas-phase reaction have been calculated using the quasiclassical semiclassical and reduced dimensionality quantum methods. The improvement of semiclassical over quasiclassical calculations (with respect to quantum ones) is significant.

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Lago, N.F., Laganà, A., Garcia, E., Gimenez, X. (2005). Thermal Rate Coefficients for the N + N 2 Reaction: Quasiclassical, Semiclassical and Quantum Calculations. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005. ICCSA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3480. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11424758_113

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