DECISIVE-FRAGMENT MODEL AND THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS OF SOLVENT REORGANIZATION ENERGIES IN SYMMETRICAL ELECTRON EXCHANGE-REACTIONS IN PARASUBSTITUTED NITROBENZENES

The INDO method and Kirkwood-Westheimer approximation were used to calculate solvent reorganization energies in one-electron transfer processes taking place in nitroarene/nitroarene radical-anion systems. The values found correlated in a satisfactory manner with experimental values. It was shown that the ''decisive-fragment model'' suggested previously by the authors provides a satisfactory description of electron transfer processes in para-substituted nitrobenzenes

DECISIVE-FRAGMENT MODEL AND THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS OF SOLVENT REORGANIZATION ENERGIES IN SYMMETRICAL ELECTRON EXCHANGE-REACTIONS IN PARASUBSTITUTED NITROBENZENES

The INDO method and Kirkwood-Westheimer approximation were used to calculate solvent reorganization energies in one-electron transfer processes taking place in nitroarene/nitroarene radical-anion systems. The values found correlated in a satisfactory manner with experimental values. It was shown that the ''decisive-fragment model'' suggested previously by the authors provides a satisfactory description of electron transfer processes in para-substituted nitrobenzenes

Strong disorder RG approach – a short review of recent developments

The strong disorder RG approach for random systems has been extended in many new directions since our previous review of 2005 [F. Igloi, C. Monthus, Phys. Rep. 412, 277 (2005)]. The aim of the present colloquium paper is thus to give an overview of these various recent developments. In the field of quantum disordered models, recent progress concern infinite disorder fixed points for short-ranged models in higher dimensions d > 1, strong disorder fixed points for long-ranged models, scaling of the entanglement entropy in critical ground-states and after quantum quenches, the RSRG-X procedure to construct the whole set excited stated and the RSRG-t procedure for the unitary dynamics in many-body-localized phases, the Floquet dynamics of periodically driven chains, the dissipative effects induced by the coupling to external baths, and Anderson Localization models. In the field of classical disordered models, new applications include the contact process for epidemic spreading, the strong disorder renormalization procedure for general master equations, the localization properties of random elastic networks, and the synchronization of interacting non-linear dissipative oscillators. Application of the method for aperiodic (or deterministic) disorder is also mentioned