Abstract

Clusters are an important medium for studying properties of the bulk on an atomic or molecular level and for understanding departures from bulk-phase behavior as the system size approaches the single-molecule gas-phase limit. In this paper we investigate the role of solvent vibrations on proton tunneling by comparing emerging theories of tunneling in clusters to recent time-resolved measurements. Our ultimate goal is to develop a theory that is applicable to both the cluster and bulk-phase limits.

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