Quantum logics and chemical kinetics

C.I. Ivanov

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1981, vol. 107, issue 2, 341-359

Abstract: A statistical theory of chemical kinetics is presented based on the quantum logical concept of chemical observables. The apparatus of Boolean algebra B is applied for the construction of appropriate composition polynomials referring to any stipulated arrangement of the atomic constituents. A physically motivated probability measure μ(F) is introduced on the field B of chemical observables, which considers the occurrence of the yes response of a given F ϵ B. The equations for the time evolution of the species density operators and the master equations for the corresponding number densities are derived. The general treatment is applied to a superposition of elementary substitution reactions (AB)α + C ⇄ (AC)β + B. The expressions for the reaction rate coefficients are established.

Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(81)90094-7

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