The rapid developments in laser technology and their use in multidimensional vibrational IR spectroscopy provide a powerful new tool to study, through molecular vibrations, the structure and dynamics of proteins and other biomolecules on a fast timescale. This have led to the need for theoretical techniques applicable to vibrational states that are significantly perturbed from the harmonic oscillator limit.
The VSCF method with a hierarchical many-body expansion of the potential energy surface can provide us with an efficient framework for the computation of the vibrational states of strongly anharmonic systems. Unfortunately the first principle computations of anharmonic vibrational states rapidly becomes a daunting task with the increasing system size.
In this thesis we try to address efficiently this computational bottleneck while achieving reasonable agreement with experiment and understand the complex vibrational coupling network of the amide modes.
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The rapid developments in laser technology and their use in multidimensional vibrational IR spectroscopy provide a powerful new tool to study, through molecular vibrations, the structure and dynamics of proteins and other biomolecules on a fast timescale. This have led to the need for theoretical techniques applicable to vibrational states that are significantly perturbed from the harmonic oscillator limit.
The VSCF method with a hierarchical many-body expansion of the potential energy surface...
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