Intramolecular Dynamics

The Fifteenth Jerusalem Symposium reflected the high standards of the former international scientific meetings, which convene once a year at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem to discuss a specific topic in the broad area of quantum chemistry and biochemistry. The topic at this year's Jerusalem Symposium was intramo lecular dynamics, a subject of central interest for theoreticians, che mists and biologists. During the last two decades, there has been remarkable pro gress in our understanding of time dependent phenomena. The development and application of the modern techniques of quantum mechanics and sta tistical mechanics to excited-state dynamics and to chemical and biophy sical systems constitutes a fast developing current research area. The main theme of the Symposium was built around a conceptual framework for the elucidation of photophysical and photochemical phenomena in atoms, molecules, van der Waals complexes and clusters, condensed phases, poly mers and biological supermolecules. The interdisciplinary nature of this research field was deliberated by intensive and extensive interactions between scientists from different disciplines and between theory and experiment. This volume provides a record of the invited lectures at the Symposium.

The main goal of this book is to give a systematic description of intramolecular quantum dynamics on the basis of only the symmetry principles. In this respect, the book has no analogs in the world literature. This approach does not introduce a configuration space of the molecular system in explicit form at all and, consequently, does not consider in explicit form the wave functions of the coordinates of this space. However, precisely because of its deep philosophical and technical difference this approach is the only possible for the solution of many topical problems of the internal dynamics of molecules. The obtained models lead to a simple, purely algebraic, scheme of calculation and are rigorous in the sense that their correctness is limited only to the correct choice of symmetry of the internal dynamics. The book is basically intended for scientists working in the field of molecular spectroscopy, quantum and structural chemistry. The reader is not supposed to know the apparatus of group representation theory needed for application of symmetry methods in quantum intramolecular dynamics since the first part of the book is dedicated to it.

Covers both molecular and reaction dynamics. The work presents important theroetical and computational approaches to the study of energy transfer within and between molecules, discussing the application of these approaches to problems of experimental interest. It also describes time-dependent and time-independent methods, variational and perturbative techniques, iterative and direct approaches, and methods based upon the use of physical grids of finite sets of basic function.

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Proceedings of the Second Structural Chemistry Indaba held in Kruger Park, South Africa, August 3-8, 1997

Primary events in natural systems or devices occur on extremely short time scales, and yet determine in many cases the final performance or output. For this reason research in ultrafast science is of primary importance and impact in both fundamental research as well as its applications. This book reviews the advances in the field, addressing timely and open questions such as the role of quantum coherence in biology, the role of excess energy in electron injection at photovoltaic interfaces or the dynamics in quantum confined structures (e.g. multi carrier generation). The approach is that of a monograph, with a broad tutorial introduction and an overview of the recent results. This volume includes selected lectures presented at Symposium on Ultrafast Dynamics of the 7th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies. Contents:Femtosecond Real-Time Vibrational Spectroscopy Using Ultrafast Laser Pulses (Takayoshi Kobayashi and Juan Du)Multidimensional Optical Spectroscopy Using a Pump-Probe Configuration: Some Implementation Details (Zhengyang Zhang and Howe-Siang Tan)High-Sensitivity Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Organic Photovoltaic Devices (Alex J Barker, Kai Chen, Shyamal Prasad and Justin M Hodgkiss)Transient Absorption Data Analysis by Soft-Modelling (I A Howard, H Mangold, F Etzold, D Gehrig and F Laquai)Infrared Ultrafast Optical Probes of Photoexcitations in Π-Conjugated Polymers/Fullerene Blends for Photovoltaic Applications (C-X Sheng, U Huynh and Z V Vardeny)Ultrafast Optical Probing of Carrier Motion in Conjugated Polymers and Blends for Solar Cells (Vidmantas Gulbinas, Andrius Devizis, Domantas Peckus and Dirk Hertel)Singlet Fission in Organic Crystals (Lin Ma, Christian Kloc, Cesare Soci, Maria E Michel-Beyerle and Gagik G Gurzadyan)Mapping Carrier Diffusion in Single Silicon Core-Shell Nanowires with Ultrafast Optical Microscopy (Minah Seo, Jinkyoung Yoo, Shadi Dayeh, Julio Martinez, Brian Swartzentruber, Samuel Picraux, Antoinette Taylor and Rohit Prasankumar)Exciton Dynamics and Its Regulation Ability in Photosynthesis (V Balevicius, Jr, L Valkunas and D Abramavicius)Ultrafast Intramolecular Dynamics in Novel Star-Shaped Molecules for Photovoltaic Applications (Oleg V Kozlov, Yuriy N Luponosov, Sergei A Ponomarenko, Dmitry Yu Paraschuk, Nina Kausch-Busies and Maxim S Pshenichnikov)Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Interfaces and Its Application to Organic Electronics (Silvia G Motti, Francisco C B Maia and Paulo B Miranda)Photoinduced Charge Transfer Dynamics at HybridGaAs/P3HT Interfaces (Jun Yin, Manoj Kumar, Majid Panahandeh-Fard, Zilong Wang, Francesco Scotognella and Cesare Soci)The First Step in Vision: Visualizing Wavepacket Motion through a Conical Intersection (Dario Polli, Daniele Brida, Cristian Manzoni, Giulio Cerullo, Piero Altoe', Marco Garavelli, Oliver Weingart, Katelyn Spillane, Philipp Kukura and Richard A Mathies)Ultrafast Investigation of Energy and Charge Transfer in a Prototypical Photovoltaic Blend (Guglielmo Lanzani, Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada and Daniele Fazzi)Vacancy-Doped Plasmonic Copper Chalcogenide Nanocrystals with Tunable Optical Properties (Ilka Kriegel, Jessica Rodríguez-Fernández, Chengyang Jiang, Richard Schaller, Enrico Da Como, Dmitri V Talapin, Jochen Feldmann) Readership: Academics and professionals in the fields of physics, chemistry and material science. Keywords:Nanostructure;Interface;Semiconductor;Nanoelectronics;Optics;SurfaceReviews: “This book provides an excellent introduction to the basics of ultrafast dynamics, describes advanced experimental methods and important applications to biological, charge transfer, low-dimensional systems and others. It is highly recommended to researchers and graduate students in the field of ultrafast laser spectroscopy.” Prof. Alan Heeger Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2000

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