Nelson De Leon
Department of  Chemistry
Associate Professor of Chemistry
At IU Northwest since 1990

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS


ARTICLES (in refereed journals):

“Aerodynamic simulation of Indoor Flight.” European Journal of Physics 28 (2007), 255-265.

De Leon, N. and J.R. Morris, "Reflection and Transmission at Dimensional Boundaries." Physical Review D 74, 045033 (2006) [hep-th/0608113].

Morris, J. R. and N. De Leon,  “Quantum Mechanical Consequences of the Hubble Expansion.”  Il Nuovo Cimento, 110 (1994), 19.

De Leon, N. and S. Ling, “Modification of the Transition State Concept in RI Theory: Application to the HCN/HNC isomeriation.”  J. Chem. Phys. (1994), 4790.

"Dynamical Corrections to Non-RRKM Behavior.”  Chem. Phys. Lett.  189 (1992), 371.

“Cylindrical Manifolds and Reactive Island Kinetic Theory in the Time Domain.” J. Chem. Phys. 96  (1992), 285.

De Leon, N., M.A. Mehta and R.Q. Topper, “Cylindrical Manifolds in Phase Space as mediators of Chemical ReactionDynamics and Kinetics II:  Numerical  Considerations and Applications to Models with Two Degrees of Freedom.” J. Chem. Phys. 94  (1991), 8329.

Manning, R. S. and N. De Leon.Theory of Projected Probabilities in Non-Orthogonal States: Applications to Electronic Populations in Molecules.”   J. Math. Chem. 5  (1990), 323.

Almeida, A. Orozio de,  N. De Leon, M. Mehta and C. Clay Marston. “Geometry and  Dynamics of Stable and Unstable Cylinders in Hamiltonian Systems.” Physica   D,  46 (1990), 265.*

Neshyba, S. P. and N. De Leon. “Projection Operator formalism for the Characterization of Molecular Eigenstates: Application to a 3:4 Resonant System.”  J. Chem. Phys. 91 1989), 7772.

Marston, C. Clay and N. De Leon.  “Islands as Essential mediators of  Unimolecular  Conformational Isomerization: A Dynamical Study of 3-  Phospholene.” J. Chem. Phys. 91 (1989), 3392.

De Leon, N. and C. Clay Marston. “Order in Chaos and the Dynamics and  Kinetics of Unimolecular Conformational Isomerization.” J. Chem. Phys.  91 (1989), 3405.

Kwong, D. W.,  G.L. Haller and N. De Leon, “Probing the Transition State of a Surface Catalyzed Reaction.”  Proj. Sci. Comp., Proc. Pitts. Supercomp.  Cen. (1989).

Kwong, D., N. De Leon and G.L. Haller. “Desporption of Carbon Dioxide    Molecules  from a Pt (111) Surface: A Stochastic classical Trajectory Approach.” Chem. Phys. Lett. 144 (1988), 533.

De Leon, N. and M. Mehta.  “Semiclassical Spectral Quantization: Molecular Energies and Eigenfunctions.” Comp. Phys. Reports, 8 (1988), 295.

Mehta, M. and N. De Leon.LUCY: A Fortran Implementation of Semiclassical Spectral Quantization Method.” Computer Physics  Communications 51 (1988), 115.

Mehta, M. and N. De Leon. “Semiclassical Quantization by Circuit   Counting: Application to Sulfur Dioxide.” J. Chem. Phys. 89 (1988). 882.

De Leon, N and S.P. Neshyba. “Total Projection Probabilities on Nonorthogonal  States: Calculation of Electronic Populations in Molecules.” Chem. Phys. Lett. 151 (1988), 296.

Neshyba, S. P. and N. De Leon. “Classical Resonances, Fermi Resonances and Canonical Transformations for Three Non-Linearly coupled Oscillators.” J. Chem.Phys. 86 (1987), 6295.

Kwong, D., N. De Leon and G.L. Haller. “Trajectory Study of CO2 on a Pt(111) Surface.”  Proceedings of the Conference on Gas-Surface Interactions, at  Edinburgh (1987).

De Leon, N.  “Second Order Correction to the Arbitrary Trajectory Method of Semiclassical Quantization,” J. Chem. Phys. 87 (1987), 4722.

“Classical Limit Analysis of the Semiclassical Spectral Quantization Method.”  J. Chem. Phys. 84 (1985, 2233.

De Leon,N.,  M.J. Davis and E.J. Heller.  “Quantum Manifestations of Classical   Resonance Zones.” J. Chem. Phys. 80 (1984), 794.

De Leon, N. and E.J. Heller  “Semiclassical Spectral Quantization: Application to Two and Four Molecular Degrees of Freedom.”  J. Chem. Phys. 81 (1984), 5957.

De Leon, N.  and E.J. Heller. “Vector Fields, Line Integrals and the Hamilton Jacobi  Equation: Semiclassical Quantization of Bound States.”  Phys. Rev. A 30 (1984), 5.

De Leon, N.,  E.J. Heller, C.W. Eaker and G.C. Schatz.  “Fourier Transform  Methods  for Calculating  Action Variables and Semiclassical Eigenvalues for coupled Oscillator Systems.” J. chem. Phys. 81 (1984), 5913.

De Leon, N. and E.J. Heller. “Semiclassical Quantization and Extraction of  Eigenfunctions Using Arbitrary Trajectories.” J. Chem. Phys. 78, (1983), 4005.

Berne, B. J.,  R.O. Rosenberg and N. De Leon.  “Isomerization Dyanmics and the  Transition to Chaos.” J. Phys. Chem. 86 (1982), 2116.

De Leon, N. and B.J. Berne. “A Statistical Theory of  Rate Constants in Non  Ergodic Systems.”  J. Chem. Phys. 76 (1982), 5187.

De Leon, N. and B.J. Berne, “Reaction dynamics in Non Ergodic Systems: The   Siamese Stadium Billiard.”  Chem. Phys. Lett. 93 (1982), 169.

De Leon, N. and B.J. Berne. “Reaction dynamics in an Ergodic System: The Siamese Stadium Billiard.” Chem. Phys. Lett. 93 (1982), 162.

De Leon, N. and B.J. Berne. “Intramoleculart Rate Processes: Isomerization  Dynamics and the Transition to Chaos .”  J. Chem. Phys. 75 (1981), 3495.

De Leon, N. and B.J. Berne. “On Determining Conditions for Non-RRKM  Behavior in Conservative Dynamical Systems.”  J. Chem. Phys. 77, (1981), 3495.

 


Revised: 04/09/09.