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As has been demonstrated in section 3.1., classical mechanics has proved to be a very useful and, to some extent, reliable tool for the interpretation and prediction of the dynamics of atomic and molecular elementary processes. However, it suffers from serious shortcomings; in particular, it gives usually a wrong low-energy (threshold) behaviour which is crucial for low-temperature rate constants and it does not describe non-adiabatic transitions as well as other specific quantum effects like resonances (compare section 3.2.).
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Nikitin, E.E., Zülicke, L. (1978). Classical-Limit and Semiclassical Approaches to the Calculation of Molecular Collisional Transition Probabilities. In: Selected Topics of the Theory of Chemical Elementary Processes. Lecture Notes in Chemistry, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93087-4_4
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