“…The fifthorder response was treated using multimode Brownian oscillator (MMBO) models [2,31,84,93] as well as instantaneous normal modes analysis [5,15,20,92]. More recently, coupled-mode theory has been employed to generate the fifth-order response of an atomic liquid [16,17,[94][95][96] while direct molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been carried out for both atomic and molecular liquids [6,15,21,22,[97][98][99][100]. This section describes the basic formulation of the fifth-order response function and some simple harmonic models to illustrate the sensitivity to the underlying dynamics.…”