Ultrafast spectroscopy : quantum information and wavepackets /
"The applications of nonlinear ultrafast spectroscopy are numerous and widespread and it is an established and indispensable technique for revealing ultrafast processes in modern material, chemical and biochemical research. Unfortunately it is also a topic that can be daunting to those meeting...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
IOP Publishing,
[2014]
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Colección: | IOP expanding physics.
IOP (Series). Release 1. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The authors
- Glossary of common terms
- Introduction
- The process matrix and how to determine it : quantum process tomography
- Model systems and energy scales
- Interaction of light pulses with ensembles of chromophores : polarization gratings
- Laser-induced polarization gratings
- Induced linear and nonlinear polarization in an ideal coupled dimer
- Measuring the signal : connecting induced polarization to experimental results
- Interaction of light pulses with ensembles of chromophores : wavepackets
- Linear absorption spectroscopy
- Pump-probe (PP0) spectroscopy
- Putting it all together : quantum process tomography and pump-probe spectroscopies
- Broadband PP0 spectra in terms of the process matrix
- Performing QPT using PP0 data
- Computational methods for spectroscopy simulations
- Propagation of wavefunctions
- Numerical simulation of frequency-resolved linear absorption
- Numerical simulation of frequency-integrated linear and nonlinear spectra
- Extensions : boundary conditions and relaxation dynamics
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- A. Mathematical description of a short pulse of light
- B. Validity of time-dependent perturbation theory in the treatment of light-matter interaction
- C. Many-molecule quantum states of an ensemble of chromophores interacting with coherent light
- D. Frequency-resolved spectroscopy
- E. Two-dimensional spectroscopy
- F. Isotropic averaging of signals