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    ELECTRON DYNAMICS IN MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS

    by Frank Hagelberg (East Tennessee State University, USA)

    This volume provides a comprehensive introduction into the theory of electronic motion in molecular processes — an increasingly relevant and rapidly expanding segment of molecular quantum dynamics. Emphasis is placed on describing and interpreting transitions between electronic states in molecules, as they occur typically in cases of reactive scattering between molecules, photoexcitation or nonadiabatic coupling between electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom.

    Electron Dynamics in Molecular Interactions aims at a synoptic presentation of some very recent theoretical efforts and to contrast them with the more traditional schemes to solve the electronic problem in quantum molecular dynamics. The presented models are derived from their roots in basic quantum theory, their interrelations are discussed, and their characteristic applications to concrete chemical systems are outlined. This volume also includes an assessment of the present status of electron dynamics and a report on novel developments to meet the current challenges in the field.

    Further, this monograph responds to a need for a systematic comparative treatise on nonadiabatic theories of quantum molecular dynamics, which are of considerably higher complexity than the more traditional adiabatic approaches and are steadily gaining in importance. This volume addresses a broad readership ranging from physics or chemistry graduate students to specialists in the field of theoretical quantum dynamics.

     
    Contents:
    • The Electronic Problem in Quantum Molecular Dynamics
    • Ab Initio Theory of Electronic Structure
    • The Adiabatic and the Diabatic Representation
    • Basic Concepts of Scattering Theory
    • Semiclassical Notions
    • The Time-Independent Theory of Molecular Collisions I: Multichannel Scattering
    • The Time-Independent Theory of Molecular Collisions II: The Electronic Problem
    • The Time-Dependent Self-consistent Field Theory
    • Evolution of Coherent Molecular States: Electron Nuclear Dynamics
    • The Classical Electron Analog
    • Hopping and Spawning
    • Semiclassical Propagator Techniques
    • Quantum Hydrodynamics I: Coupled Trajectories in Bohmian Mechanics
    • Quantum Hydrodynamics II: The Semiclassical Liouville-von Neumann Equation
    • Wavepacket Propagation Methods
    • Density Functional Dynamics
    • Decoherence
    • Electron Dynamics in Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy
    • Optical Control of Multistate Molecular Dynamics
    • Electron Transfer in Condensed Media
    • Electronic Friction in Molecule-Surface Interactions
     
    Readership: Graduate students and researchers in physical chemistry and computational physics; industrial chemists and physicists interested in the field.
     
     
    500pp (approx.)    Pub. date: Scheduled Summer 2012  
    ISBN:   978-1-84816-487-1
    1-84816-487-4
       US$135 / £93

     


     

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