Chemical Dynamics in Condensed Phases

This text provides a uniform and consistent approach to diversified problems encountered in the study of dynamical processes in condensed phase molecular systems. Given the broad interdisciplinary aspect of this subject, the book focuses on three themes: coverage of needed background material, in-depth introduction of methodologies, and analysis of several key applications. The uniform approach and common language used in all discussions help to develop general understanding and insight on condensed phases chemical dynamics. The applications discussed are among the most fundamental processes that underlie physical, chemical and biological phenomena in complex systems. The first part of the book starts with a general review of basic mathematical and physical methods (Chapter 1) and a few introductory chapters on quantum dynamics (Chapter 2), interaction of radiation and matter (Chapter 3) and basic properties of solids (chapter 4) and liquids (Chapter 5). In the second part the text embarks on a broad coverage of the main methodological approaches. The central role of classical and quantum time correlation functions is emphasized in Chapter 6. The presentation of dynamical phenomena in complex systems as stochastic processes is discussed in Chapters 7 and 8. The basic theory of quantum relaxation phenomena is developed in Chapter 9, and carried on in Chapter 10 which introduces the density operator, its quantum evolution in Liouville space, and the concept of reduced equation of motions. The methodological part concludes with a discussion of linear response theory in Chapter 11, and of the spin-boson model in chapter 12. The third part of the book applies the methodologies introduced earlier to several fundamental processes that underlie much of the dynamical behaviour of condensed phase molecular systems. Vibrational relaxation and vibrational energy transfer (Chapter 13), Barrier crossing and diffusion controlled reactions (Chapter 14), solvation dynamics (Chapter 15), electron transfer in bulk solvents (Chapter 16) and at electrodes/electrolyte and metal/molecule/metal junctions (Chapter 17), and several processes pertaining to molecular spectroscopy in condensed phases (Chapter 18) are the main subjects discussed in this part.

ISBN 0198529791   Pages 744 ISBN13 9780198529798 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 1348 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Series title Oxford Graduate Texts Publication date 06 Apr 2006   Height (mm) 247 Library of Congress 2005030160   Width (mm) 172 DEWEY 541.22   Spine width (mm) 44 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education

1		Review of some mathematical and physical subjects		3
2		Quantum dynamics using the time-dependent Schrodinger equation		57
3		An overview of quantum electrodynamics and matter-radiation field interaction		112
4		Introduction to solids and their interfaces		131
5		Introduction to liquids		175
6		Time correlation functions		193
7		Introduction to stochastic processes		219
8		Stochastic equations of motion		255
9		Introduction to quantum relaxation processes		304
10		Quantum mechanical density operator		347
11		Linear response theory		399
12		The spin-boson model		419
13		Vibrational energy relaxation		453
14		Chemical reactions in condensed phases		483
15		Solvation dynamics		536
16		Electron transfer processes		552
17		Electron transfer and transmission at molecule-metal and molecule-semiconductor interfaces		607
18		Spectroscopy		640

'Beautifully and clearly written, describing mathematics in necessary detail without overloading the reader, and very neatly and consisely explaining physics of the described phenomena.' European Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry, August 2007 This is an excellent book which is intended to be a text for a graduate course in condensed matter chemistry and physics. It is extremely well written from the pedagogic and literary points of view. I particularly enjoyed the extremely pertinent quotations from Lucretius at the begining of each chapter. Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 126, No. 6, March 2007, Irwin Oppenheim, Massachusett Institute of Technology, USA

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