by Dmitri Iouchtchenko

Supervisor: Pierre-Nicholas Roy

Department of Chemistry

University of Waterloo

August 2015

A thesis presented to the University of Waterloo in fulfilment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Science in Chemistry.

The official version was compiled from the final tag (commit e66c39d).

The following errors in the official version have been corrected on the master branch:

• Missing coherent state prefactor in chapter 3 (SC-IVR). The prefactor was present in the code used to generate the data, but not in the text.
• Flipped sign in eq. (C.8). The expression is only used squared, so the sign doesn't affect anything else.
• Misspelling of "subadditivity".