ELECTRIC-DIPOLE POLARIZABILITIES OF ATOMS, MOLECULES, AND CLUSTERS
by Keith D Bonin (Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem) & Vitaly V Kresin (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
Professor Keith D Bonin received his PhD degree in Physics from the University of Maryland in 1984 and was Assistant Professor of Physics at Princeton University from 1986 to 1992. Since 1992, he has been an Associate Professor at Wake Forest University. His current research interests include all aspects of light forces and polarizability measurements of atoms and clusters. A member of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, he has been a consultant to the US Army and to private industry.
Professor Vitaly V Kresin obtained his PhD degree in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. He was a postdoctoral scientist at Berkeley and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before his present appointment as Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Southern California in 1994. His experimental research has focused on electron dynamics in metal and fullerene microclusters (molecular beam spectroscopy, optical resonances, electron scattering, and collision studies). He has also carried out theoretical work exploring the response properties and collective states in clusters, fullerenes, and nanostructures.
This book is an in-depth review of experiment and theory on electric-dipole polarizabilities. It is broad in scope, encompassing atomic, molecular, and cluster polarizabilities. Both static and dynamic polarizabilities are treated (in the absence of absorption) and a full tensor picture of the polarizability is used. Traditional experimental techniques for measuring electric polarizabilities are described in detail. Recently developed experimental methods, including light forces, position-sensitive time-of-flight deflection, and atom interferometry, are also extensively discussed. Theoretical techniques for calculating polarizabilities are reviewed, including a discussion on the use of Gaussian basis sets. Many important comparisons between theory and experiment are summarized in an extensive set of tables of polarizabilities of important atoms, molecules, and clusters. Applications of polarizabilities to many areas of chemistry and physics are described, including optics, chemical structure, interactions of gases and particles with surfaces, and the interaction of molecules with light. The emphasis is on a lucid presentation of the ideas and results with up-to-date discussions on important applications such as optical tweezers and nanostructure fabrication. This book provides an excellent overview of the importance of polarizabilities in understanding the physical, electronic, and optical properties of particles in a regime that goes from free atoms to condensed-phase clusters.
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