This thesis describes the measurement of rate constants for gas phase reactions as a function of temperature (285 ≤ T/K ≤ 850) and pressure (48 ≤ P/Torr ≤ 700). One or both reactants was monitored directly in real time, using time–resolved resonance fluorescence (for atoms) and u.v. absorption (for radicals). Reactants were produced by exciplex laser flash photolysis. The technique was used to measure rate constants to high precision for the following reactions under the stated conditions: • H+O2+He->HO2+He and H+O2−→OH+O, for 800 ≤ T/K ≤ 850 and 100 ≤ P/Torr ≤ 259. A time–resolved study was performed at conditions close to criticality in the H2–O2 system. The competition between the two reactions affected the behaviour of the system after photolysis, and the rate constants were inferred from this behaviour. • H+C2H4+He<-->C2H5+He (T = 800 K, 97 ≤ P/Torr ≤ 600). The reactions were well into the fall–off region at all conditions studied. At 800 K, the system was studied under equilibrating conditions. The study provided values of the forward and reverse rate constants at high temperatures and enabled a test of a new theory of reversible unimolecular reactions. The controversial standard enthalpy of formation of ethyl, DH0f,298 (C2H5), was determined to be 120.2±0.8 kJ mol−1. Master Equation calculations showed that reversible and irreversible treatments of an equilibrating system should yield the same value for both thermal rate constants. • H+C3H5+He->C3H6+He (T = 291 K, 98 ≤ P/Torr ≤ 600) and O+C3H5 −→ products (286 ≤ T/K ≤ 500, 48 ≤ P/Torr ≤ 348). Both reactions were pressure–independent, and the latter was also independent of temperature with a value of (2.0±0.2) ×10−10 cm3 molecule−1 s−1. • H+C2H2+He<-->C2H3+He (298 ≤ T/K ≤ 845, 50 ≤ P/Torr ≤ 600). At 845 K, both reactions were in the fall–off region; rate constants were used to determine the standard enthalpy of formation of vinyl, ¢H0f,298 (C2H3), as 293±7 kJ mol−1. The value of this quantity has until recently been very controversial. • H+CH4 <--> CH3+H2. The standard enthalpy of formation of methyl, DH0 f,298 (CH3), was determined by re–analysing existing kinetic data at T = 825 K and 875 K. A value of 144.7±1.1 kJ mol−1 was determined. Preliminary models were examined to describe the loss of reactants from the observation region by diffusion and pump–out. Such models, including diffusion and drift, should prove useful in describing the loss of reactive species in many slow–flow systems, enabling more accurate rate constants to be determined.

In this thesis, quantum dynamical simulations are performed in order to describe the vibrational motion of diatomic molecules in a highly quantum environment, so-called helium droplets. We aim to reproduce and explain experimental findings which were obtained from dimers on helium droplets. Nanometer-sized helium droplets contain several thousands of 4-He atoms. They serve as a host for embedded atoms or molecules and provide an ultracold “refrigerator” for them. Spectroscopy of molecules in or on these droplets reveals information on both the molecule and the helium environment. The droplets are known to be in the superfluid He II phase. Superfluidity in nanoscale systems is a steadily growing field of research. Spectra obtained from full quantum simulations for the unperturbed dimer show deviations from measurements with dimers on helium droplets. These deviations result from the influence of the helium environment on the dimer dynamics. In this work, a well-established quantum optical master equation is used in order to describe the dimer dynamics effectively. The master equation allows to describe damping fully quantum mechanically. By employing that equation in the quantum dynamical simulation, one can study the role of dissipation and decoherence in dimers on helium droplets. The effective description allows to explain experiments with Rb-2 dimers on helium droplets. Here, we identify vibrational damping and associated decoherence as the main explanation for the experimental results. The relation between decoherence and dissipation in Morse-like systems at zero temperature is studied in more detail. The dissipative model is also used to investigate experiments with K-2 dimers on helium droplets. However, by comparing numerical simulations with experimental data, one finds that further mechanisms are active. Here, a good agreement is obtained through accounting for rapid desorption of dimers. We find that decoherence occurs in the electronic manifold of the molecule. Finally, we are able to examine whether superfluidity of the host does play a role in these experiments. / In dieser Dissertation werden quantendynamische Simulationen durchgeführt, um die Schwingungsbewegung zweiatomiger Moleküle in einer hochgradig quantenmechanischen Umgebung, sogenannten Heliumtröpfchen, zu beschreiben. Unser Ziel ist es, experimentelle Befunde zu reproduzieren und zu erklären, die von Dimeren auf Heliumtröpfchen erhalten wurden. Nanometergroße Heliumtröpfchen enthalten einige tausend 4-He Atome. Sie dienen als Wirt für eingebettete Atome oder Moleküle und stellen für dieseeinen ultrakalten „Kühlschrank“ bereit. Durch Spektroskopie mit Molekülen in oder auf diesen Tröpfchen erhält man Informationen sowohl über das Molekül selbst als auch über die Heliumumgebung. Man weiß, dass sich die Tröpfchen in der suprafluiden He II Phase befinden. Suprafluidität in Nanosystemen ist ein stetig wachsendes Forschungsgebiet. Spektren, die für das ungestörte Dimer durch voll quantenmechanische Simulationen erhalten werden, weichen von Messungen mit Dimeren auf Heliumtröpfchen ab. Diese Abweichungen lassen sich auf den Einfluss der Heliumumgebung auf die Dynamik des Dimers zurückführen. In dieser Arbeit wird eine etablierte quantenoptische Mastergleichung verwendet, um die Dynamik des Dimers effektiv zu beschreiben. Die Mastergleichung erlaubt es, Dämpfung voll quantenmechanisch zu beschreiben. Durch Verwendung dieser Gleichung in der Quantendynamik-Simulation lässt sich die Rolle von Dissipation und Dekohärenz in Dimeren auf Heliumtröpfchen untersuchen. Die effektive Beschreibung erlaubt es, Experimente mit Rb-2 Dimeren zu erklären. In diesen Untersuchungen wird Dissipation und die damit verbundene Dekohärenz im Schwingungsfreiheitsgrad als maßgebliche Erklärung für die experimentellen Resultate identifiziert. Die Beziehung zwischen Dekohärenz und Dissipation in Morse-artigen Systemen bei Temperatur Null wird genauer untersucht. Das Dissipationsmodell wird auch verwendet, um Experimente mit K-2 Dimeren auf Heliumtröpfchen zu untersuchen. Wie sich beim Vergleich von numerischen Simulationen mit experimentellen Daten allerdings herausstellt, treten weitere Mechanismen auf. Eine gute Übereinstimmung wird erzielt, wenn man eine schnelle Desorption der Dimere berücksichtigt. Wir stellen fest, dass ein Dekohärenzprozess im elektronischen Freiheitsgrad des Moleküls auftritt. Schlussendlich sind wir in der Lage herauszufinden, ob Suprafluidität des Wirts in diesen Experimenten eine Rolle spielt.

Self-organizing patterns arise in a variety of ways in nature, the complex patterning observed on animal coats is such an example. It is already known that the mechanisms responsible for pattern formation starts at the developmental stage of an embryo. However, the actual process determining cell fate has been, and still is, unknown. The mathematical interest for pattern formation emerged from the theories formulated by the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing in 1952. He attempted to explain the mechanisms behind morphogenesis and how the process of spatial cell differentiation from homogeneous cells lead to organisms with different complexities and shapes. Turing formulated a mathematical theory and proposed a reaction-diffusion system where morphogens, a postulated chemically active substance, moderated the whole mechanism. He concluded that this process was stable as long as diffusion was neglected; otherwise this would lead to a diffusion-driven instability, which is the fundamental part of pattern formation. The mathematical theory describing this process consists of solving partial differential equations and Turing considered deterministic reaction-diffusion systems.   This thesis will start with introducing the reader to the problem and then gradually build up the mathematical theory needed to get an understanding of the stochastic reaction-diffusion systems that is the focus of the thesis. This study will to a large extent simulate stochastic systems using numerical computations and in order to be computationally feasible a compartment-based model will be used. Noise is an inherent part of such systems, so the study will also discuss the effects of noise and morphogen kinetics on different geometries with boundaries of different complexities from one-dimensional cases up to three-dimensions.

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In this thesis, quantum dynamical simulations are performed in order to describe the vibrational motion of diatomic molecules in a highly quantum environment, so-called helium droplets. We aim to reproduce and explain experimental findings which were obtained from dimers on helium droplets. Nanometer-sized helium droplets contain several thousands of 4-He atoms. They serve as a host for embedded atoms or molecules and provide an ultracold “refrigerator” for them. Spectroscopy of molecules in or on these droplets reveals information on both the molecule and the helium environment. The droplets are known to be in the superfluid He II phase. Superfluidity in nanoscale systems is a steadily growing field of research. Spectra obtained from full quantum simulations for the unperturbed dimer show deviations from measurements with dimers on helium droplets. These deviations result from the influence of the helium environment on the dimer dynamics. In this work, a well-established quantum optical master equation is used in order to describe the dimer dynamics effectively. The master equation allows to describe damping fully quantum mechanically. By employing that equation in the quantum dynamical simulation, one can study the role of dissipation and decoherence in dimers on helium droplets. The effective description allows to explain experiments with Rb-2 dimers on helium droplets. Here, we identify vibrational damping and associated decoherence as the main explanation for the experimental results. The relation between decoherence and dissipation in Morse-like systems at zero temperature is studied in more detail. The dissipative model is also used to investigate experiments with K-2 dimers on helium droplets. However, by comparing numerical simulations with experimental data, one finds that further mechanisms are active. Here, a good agreement is obtained through accounting for rapid desorption of dimers. We find that decoherence occurs in the electronic manifold of the molecule. Finally, we are able to examine whether superfluidity of the host does play a role in these experiments. / In dieser Dissertation werden quantendynamische Simulationen durchgeführt, um die Schwingungsbewegung zweiatomiger Moleküle in einer hochgradig quantenmechanischen Umgebung, sogenannten Heliumtröpfchen, zu beschreiben. Unser Ziel ist es, experimentelle Befunde zu reproduzieren und zu erklären, die von Dimeren auf Heliumtröpfchen erhalten wurden. Nanometergroße Heliumtröpfchen enthalten einige tausend 4-He Atome. Sie dienen als Wirt für eingebettete Atome oder Moleküle und stellen für dieseeinen ultrakalten „Kühlschrank“ bereit. Durch Spektroskopie mit Molekülen in oder auf diesen Tröpfchen erhält man Informationen sowohl über das Molekül selbst als auch über die Heliumumgebung. Man weiß, dass sich die Tröpfchen in der suprafluiden He II Phase befinden. Suprafluidität in Nanosystemen ist ein stetig wachsendes Forschungsgebiet. Spektren, die für das ungestörte Dimer durch voll quantenmechanische Simulationen erhalten werden, weichen von Messungen mit Dimeren auf Heliumtröpfchen ab. Diese Abweichungen lassen sich auf den Einfluss der Heliumumgebung auf die Dynamik des Dimers zurückführen. In dieser Arbeit wird eine etablierte quantenoptische Mastergleichung verwendet, um die Dynamik des Dimers effektiv zu beschreiben. Die Mastergleichung erlaubt es, Dämpfung voll quantenmechanisch zu beschreiben. Durch Verwendung dieser Gleichung in der Quantendynamik-Simulation lässt sich die Rolle von Dissipation und Dekohärenz in Dimeren auf Heliumtröpfchen untersuchen. Die effektive Beschreibung erlaubt es, Experimente mit Rb-2 Dimeren zu erklären. In diesen Untersuchungen wird Dissipation und die damit verbundene Dekohärenz im Schwingungsfreiheitsgrad als maßgebliche Erklärung für die experimentellen Resultate identifiziert. Die Beziehung zwischen Dekohärenz und Dissipation in Morse-artigen Systemen bei Temperatur Null wird genauer untersucht. Das Dissipationsmodell wird auch verwendet, um Experimente mit K-2 Dimeren auf Heliumtröpfchen zu untersuchen. Wie sich beim Vergleich von numerischen Simulationen mit experimentellen Daten allerdings herausstellt, treten weitere Mechanismen auf. Eine gute Übereinstimmung wird erzielt, wenn man eine schnelle Desorption der Dimere berücksichtigt. Wir stellen fest, dass ein Dekohärenzprozess im elektronischen Freiheitsgrad des Moleküls auftritt. Schlussendlich sind wir in der Lage herauszufinden, ob Suprafluidität des Wirts in diesen Experimenten eine Rolle spielt.

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Complex spatial structures in biology arise from random interactions of molecules. These molecular interactions can be studied using spatial stochastic models, such as Reaction Diffusion Master Equation (RDME), a mesoscopic model that subdivides the spatial domain into smaller, well mixed grid cells, in which the macroscopic diffusion-controlled reactions take place. While RDME has been widely used to study how fluctuations in number of molecules affect spatial patterns, simulations are computationally expensive and it requires a lower bound for grid cell size to avoid an apparent unphysical loss of bimolecular reactions. In this thesis, we propose Gaussian Reaction Diffusion Master Equation (GRDME), a novel model in the RDME framework, based on the discretization of the Laplace operator with Particle Strength Exchange (PSE) method with a Gaussian kernel. We show that GRDME is a computationally efficient model compared to RDME. We further resolve the controversy regarding the loss of bimolecular reactions and argue that GRDME can flexibly bridge the diffusion-controlled and ballistic regimes in mesoscopic simulations involving multiple species. To efficiently simulate GRDME, we develop Gaussian Next Subvolume Method (GNSM). GRDME simulated with GNSM up to six-times lower computational cost for a three-dimensional simulation, providing a significant computational advantage for modeling three-dimensional systems. The computational cost can be further lowered by increasing the so-called smoothing length of the Gassian jumps. We develop a guideline to estimate the grid resolution below which RDME and GRDME exhibit loss of bimolecular reactions. This loss of reactions has been considered unphysical by others. Here we show that this loss of bimolecular reactions is consistent with the well-established theory on diffusion-controlled reaction rates by Collins and Kimball, provided that the rate of bimolecular propensity is interpreted as the rate of the ballistic step, rather than the macroscopic reaction rate. We show that the reaction radius is set by the grid resolution. Unlike RDME, GRDME enables us to explicitly model various sizes of the molecules. Using this insight, we explore the diffusion-limited regime of reaction dynamics and discover that diffusion-controlled systems resemble small, discrete systems. Others have shown that a reaction system can have discreteness-induced state inversion, a phenomenon where the order of the concentrations differs when the system size is small. We show that the same reaction system also has diffusion-controlled state inversion, where the order of concentrations changes, when the diffusion is slow. In summary, we show that GRDME is a computationally efficient model, which enables us to include the information of the molecular sizes into the model.:1 Modeling Mesoscopic Biology 1.1 RDME Models Mesoscopic Stochastic Spatial Phenomena 1.2 A New Diffusion Model Presents an Opportunity For A More Efficient RDME 1.3 Can A New Diffusion Model Provide Insights Into The Loss Of Reactions? 1.4 Overview 2 Preliminaries 2.1 Reaction Diffusion Master Equation 2.1.1 Chemical Master Equation 2.1.2 Diffusion-controlled Bimolecular Reaction Rate 2.1.3 RDME is an Extention of CME to Spatial Problems 2.2 Next Subvolume Method 2.2.1 First Reaction Method 2.2.2 NSM is an Efficient Spatial Stochastic Algorithm for RDME 2.3 Discretization of the Laplace Operator Using Particle Strength Exchange 2.4 Summary 3 Gaussian Reaction Diffusion Master Equation 3.1 Design Constraints for the Diffusion Model in the RDME Framework 3.2 Gaussian-jump-based Model for RDME 3.3 Summary 4 Gaussian Next Subvolume Method 4.1 Constructing the neighborhood N 4.2 Finding the Diffusion Event 4.3 Comparing GNSM to NSM 4.4 Summary 5 Limits of Validity for (G)RDME with Macroscopic Bimolecular Propensity Rate 5.1 Previous Works 5.2 hmin Based on the Kuramoto length of a Grid Cell 5.3 hmin of the Two Limiting Regimes 5.4 hmin of Bimolecular Reactions for the Three Cases of Dimensionality 5.5 hmin of GRDME in Comparison to hmin of RDME 5.6 Summary 6 Numerical Experiments To Verify Accuracy, Efficiency and Validity of GRDME 6.1 Accuracy of the Diffusion Model 6.2 Computational Cost 6.3 hmin and Reaction Loss for (G)RDME With Macroscopic Bimolecular Propensity Rate kCK 6.3.1 Homobiomlecular Reaction With kCK at the Ballistic Limit 6.3.2 Homobiomlecular Reaction With kCK at the Diffusional Limit 6.3.3 Heterobiomlecular Reaction With kCK at the Ballistic Limit 6.4 Summary 7 (G)RDME as a Spatial Model of Collins-Kimball Diffusion-controlled Reaction Dynamics 7.1 Loss of Reactions in Diffusion-controlled Reaction Systems 7.2 The Loss of Reactions in (G)RDME Can Be Explained by Collins Kimball Theory 7.3 Cell Width h Sets the Reaction Radius σ∗ 7.4 Smoothing Length ε′ Sets the Size of the Molecules in the System 7.5 Heterobimolecular Reactions Can Only Be Modeled With GRDME 7.6 Zeroth Order Reactions Impose a Lower Limit on Diffusivity Dmin 7.6.1 Consistency of (G)RDME Could Be Improved by Redesigning Zeroth Order Reactions 7.7 Summary 8 Difussion-Controlled State Inversion 8.1 Diffusion-controlled Systems Resemble Small Systems 8.2 Slow Diffusion Leads to an Inversion of Steady States 8.3 Summary 9 Conclusion and Outlook 9.1 Two Physical Interpretations of (G)RDME 9.2 Advantages of GRDME 9.3 Towards Numerically Consistent (G)RDME 9.4 Exploring Mesoscopic Biology With GRDME Bibliography

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L'étude des effets quantiques, comme les cohérences quantiques, et leur exploitation en contrôle par impulsion laser constituent encore un défi numérique pour les systèmes de grande taille. Pour réduire la dimensionnalité du problème, la dynamique dissipative se focalise sur un sous-espace quantique dénommé 'système', qui inclut les degrés de liberté les plus importants. Le système est couplé à un bain thermique d'oscillateurs harmoniques. L'outil essentiel de la dynamique dissipative est la densité spectrale du bain, qui contient toutes les informations sur le bain et sur l'interaction entre le système et le bain. Plusieurs stratégies complémentaires existent. Nous adoptons une équation maîtresse quantique non-markovienne pour décrire l'évolution de la matrice densité associée au système. Cette approche, développée par C. Meier et D.J. Tannor, est perturbative en fonction du couplage entre le système et le bain, mais pas en fonction de l'interaction avec un champ laser. Le but est de confronter cette méthodologie à des systèmes réalistes calibrés par des calculs de structure électronique ab initio. Une première étude porte sur la modélisation du transfert d'électron ultrarapide à une hétérojonction oligothiophène-fullerène, présente dans des cellules photovoltaïques organiques. La description du problème en fonction d'une coordonnée brownienne permet de contourner la limitation du régime perturbatif. Le transfert de charge est plus rapide mais moins complet lorsque la distance R entre les fragments oligothiophène et fullerène augmente. La méthode de dynamique quantique décrite ci-dessus est ensuite combinée à la Théorie du Contrôle Optimal (OCT), et appliquée au contrôle d'une isomérisation, le réarrangement de Cope, dans le contexte des réactions de Diels-Alder. La prise en compte de la dissipation dès l'étape d'optimisation du champ permet à l'algorithme de contrôle de contrer la décohérence induite par l'environnement et conduit à un meilleur rendement. La comparaison de modèles à une et deux dimensions montre que le contrôle trouve un mécanisme adapté au modèle utilisé. En deux dimensions, il agit activement sur les deux coordonnées du modèle. En une dimension, le décohérence est minimisée par une accélération du passage par les états délocalisés situés au-dessus de la barrière de potentiel. / The study of quantum effects as quantum coherences and their exploitation for control by laser pulse are still a numerical challenge in big systems. To reduce the dimensionality of the problem, dissipative dynamics focuses on a quantum subspace called 'system', that includes the most important degrees of freedom. The system is coupled to a thermal bath made of harmonic oscillators. The essential tool of dissipative dynamics is the spectral density of the bath, that contains all the information about the bath and the interaction between the system and the bath. Several strategies coexist and complement one another. We adopt a non-Markovian quantum master equation for the evolution of the density matrix associated to the system. This approach, developped by C. Meier and D.J. Tannor, is perturbative in the system-bath coupling, but not in the interaction with a laser field. Our goal is to confront this methodology to realistic systems calibrated by ab initio electronic structure calculations. We first study the ultrafast electron transfer modelling an oligothiophene-fullerene heterojunction, found in organic photovoltaic cells. We present a way of overcoming the limitation of the perturbative regime, using a Brownian oscillator representation to describe the problem. Charge transfer is faster but less complete when the R distance between oligothiophene and fullerene fragments increases. Then we combine the quantum dynamical method described above with the Optimal Control Theory (OCT) method. An application is the control of an isomerization, the Cope rearrangement, in the context of Diels-Alder reactions. Including the dissipation at the design stage of the field enables the control algorithm to react on the environment-induced decoherence and to lead to a better yield. Comparing one and two-dimension models shows that control finds a mechanism adapted to the model. In two dimensions, it actively acts on the two coordinates of the model. In one dimension, decoherence is minimized by accelerating the way through the delocalized states located above the potential energy barrier.

In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden Untersuchungen vorgestellt, die sich mit drei verschiedenen Aspekten der Dynamik offener Quantensysteme beschäftigen. Zwei Themenkreise haben dabei mehr grundsätzliche Probleme der Theorie dissipativer Molekularsysteme zum Gegenstand. Dementsprechend müssen die Betrachtungen dazu auf einem allgemeineren Niveau verbleiben. In dem dritten Themenkreis jedoch, der sich mit Zwei-Teilchen-Effekten in der dissipativen Dynamik befaßt, können die Untersuchungen bis hin zu Berechnung von Meßgrößen geführt werden. Im ersten Teil der Arbeit gelingt eine Verallgemeinerung der vielbenutzten Standardform der Quanten-Master-Gleichung hin zur Nichtlinearen Quanten-Master-Gleichung. Mit der Anwendung der dazugehörigen zeitabhängigen Projektionsoperator-Technik kann ein Formalismus reaktiviert werden, der in der Literatur bisher eine nur sehr eingeschränkte Verbreitung findet. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit widmet sich Untersuchungen zur Monte-Carlo-Wellenfunktions-Methode mit dem Ergebnis, eine konsistente Verallgemeinerung auf ein Reservoir mit endlicher Temperatur anzugeben. Den Ausgangspunkt dazu bildet ein mikroskopisches Modell zur System-Reservoir-Kopplung, welches im Rahmen der Bewegungsgleichung für den reduzierten statistischen Operator in die sogenannte Lindblad-Form der Dissipation überführt wird. Nach der Betrachtung von Ein-Teilchen-Transferprozessen beschäftigt sich der dritte Teil der Arbeit mit der korrelierten Bewegung von zwei Quantenteilchen in einer dissipativen Umgebung mit der Hinwendung zum Zwei-Wasserstoff-System (Dihydrid-System) an Übergangsmetall-Verbindungen. Zunächst werden Modellrechnungen zur dissipationfreien Zwei-Teilchen-Dynamik in einem Potentialmodell durchzuführt. Der Einfluß, den die Teilchen-Teilchen-Korrelationen auf das Durchtunneln eines Potentialwalles besitzt, können durch verschiedene numerische Rechnungen aufgezeigt werden. Wie sich diese Effekte in Neutronenstreuexperimenten an dem Zwei-Teilchen-System der Übergangsmetall-Hydrid-Komplexe äußern, wird basierend auf Simulationsrechnungen untersucht. Kernstück dieser Betrachtungen bildet eine neuartige Formel für die Neutronenstreuung, die auf der dissipativen Dynamik des betrachteten Zwei-Teilchen-Systems aufbaut. / In the report at hand studies are presented dealing with three differentaspects of the dynamics of open quantum systems. Two topics are about the fundamental problems of the theory of dissipative molecular systems. Accordingly these investigations must remain on a more general level. In the third subject, however, which is about the two-particle effects in the dissipative dynamics the analyses can be extended to the computation of measurements. In the first part of the report a generalization of the well known standard quantum master equation to the nonlinear quantum master equation is developed. With the help of the projection operator technique belonging to it a formalism, that has not been popular in literature so far, can be reactivated. The second part of the report concentrates on examinations of the Monte-Carlo wave-function method, and results in the consistent generalization for a reservoir of finite temperature. The starting point for this is a microscopic model of the system-reservoir coupling, which is expanded to the so called Lindblad form of the dissipation in the line of the equation of motion for the reduced statistical operator. After the analysis of one-particle transfer processes the third part of the report is about the correlated motion of two quantum particles in a dissipative environment with main emphasis on the two-hydrogen system (dihydrid system) in transition metal complexes. First of all model computations for the dissipationless two-particle dynamics in a potential model are made. By different numerical computations the influence, which the particle-particle correlations exert on the tunneling through a potential barrier, can be shown.Based on simulations it is examined how these effects can be seen in neutron scattering experiments on two-particle systems of transition metal complexes. Main item of these investigations is a new formula for the neutron scattering which is based on the dissipative dynamics of the examined two-particle system.