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Unstable states in the continuous spectra. Part 1, Analysis, concepts, methods and results /

Advances in Quantum Chemistry presents surveys of current developments in this rapidly developing field. With invited reviews written by leading international researchers, each presenting new results, it provides a single vehicle for following progress in this interdisciplinary area. * Publishes art...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nicolaides, Cleanthes A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Burlington, MA : Academic, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Advances in quantum chemistry ; v. 60.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Advances in Quantum Chemistry; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1. Unstable States: From Quantum Mechanics to Statistical Physics; 1. Introduction; 2. Quantum Resonances; 3. Collisions; 4. Statistical Physics; 5. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgment; Appendices; References; 2. Unstable States in Laser Assisted and Controlled Molecular Processes; 1. Introduction; 2. General Theory of Laser-Molecule Interactions; 3. Numerical Methodologies; 4. Processes and Mechanisms for Molecular Fragmentations in IR and UV-VisFrequency Regimes
  • 5. XUV+IR Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Molecular Dissociative Ionization6. ZWRs and EPs in Molecular Photodissociation; 7. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 3. Coherence Effects in Laser-Induced Continuum Structure; 1. Introduction; 2. A Brief Historical Survey of LICS; 3. EIT and its Connection with LICS; 4. QC and LICS; 5. The Connection between LICS, CC, and AP; 6. Summary; Acknowledgments; References; 4. Theory and State-Specific Methods for the Analysisand Computation of Field-Free and Field-Induced Unstable States in Atoms and Molecules
  • 1. Beyond Pure Formalism: The Importance of Solving Efficaciously the Many-Electron Problem (MEP) for Unstable (or Nonstationary, or Resonance) States in the Field-Free and Field-Induced Spectra of Many-Electron Atoms and Molecules2. Principal Characteristics of the Dominant Theoretical Approaches to the Computation of Unstable States in Atoms and Molecules Up to About the End of the 1960s-Early 1970s; 3. Field-Free Hamiltonian: The Form of Wave functions for Resonance States in the Context of Time- and of Energy-Dependent Theories and its Use for Phenomenology and Computation
  • 4. Aspects of the Nature and of the Preparation of 0 and of Its Connectionto the Resonance Eigenfunction5. The Form of the Resonance Eigenfunction and the Complex Eigenvalue Schr�odinger Equation; 6. Computation via the CESE SSA. Many-Body Expansion and Partial Widths with Interchannel Coupling; 7. Two Examples of Results from the Application of the CESE Approach; 8. The State-Specific Calculation of ?0; 9. Understanding the Electronic Structures of Resonances and Their Effectson Spectra in the Framework of the SSA
  • 10. The Use of f0s and of Scattering Wavefunctions in the SSEA for the Solution of the TDSE11. Field-Induced Quantities Obtained as Properties of Resonance Statesin the Framework of the CESE-SSA; 12. Conclusion and Synopsis; References; 5. Quantum Theory of Reactive Scattering in Phase Space; 1. Introduction; 2. Phase Space Structures Underlying Reaction Dynamics; 3. Quantum Normal Form Representation of the Activated Complex; 4. The Cumulative Reaction Probability; 5. Gamov-Siegert Resonances; 6. Further Challenges; 7. Conclusions; Appendix; Acknowledgments; References