adiabatic transition-state theory
A form of
transition-state theory
in which the system is assumed to preserve its internal quantum states as it moves over the
potential-energy surface
. A detailed state-to-state
scattering
theory version of
adiabatic
transition-state theory has been referred to as the
adiabatic
channel
model.
Source:
PAC, 1996,
68
, 149
(A glossary of terms used in chemical kinetics, including reaction dynamics (IUPAC Recommendations 1996))
on page 152