Ultrafast Spectroscopy

Ultrafast Spectroscopy by Joel Yuenzhou

The applications of nonlinear ultrafast spectroscopy are numerous and widespread, and it is an established and indispensable technique for revealing ultrafast processes in modern material, chemical and biochemical research. Unfortunately, it is also a topic that can be daunting to those meeting it for the first time. Assuming just an understanding of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, and making use of many worked examples and accompanied by MATLAB® codes for numerical simulations of spectra, this book delivers a practical and intuitive introduction to the subject for advanced students and researchers. It will also be useful for practitioners, who are already familiar with the subject, but who want to develop a more conceptual understanding.

In this clear text, experienced practitioners present a simple and conceptually intuitive overview of ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy using the formalism of quantum processes and wavepacket dynamics. Using this unified framework, the authors provide the reader with simple analytical models, examples and concepts to understand the workings of nonlinear spectroscopy through a pedagogical and physically intuitive approach. The core of the book is the section on pump-probe spectroscopy, as on understanding its mathematical description, more complex and multidimensional spectroscopies become easily understood derivatives. 

Readers, once familiar with the material in this text, will be fully equipped with the tools to devise and undertake well reasoned spectroscopic experiments.

Krich, Jacob J.: - Jacob Krich is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Ottawa. He received his BA in Physics from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, followed by an MMath from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He received his PhD in theoretical condensed-matter physics from Harvard University. After receiving his PhD, Jacob was a Ziff Fellow of the Harvard University Center for the Environment and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard. His research focuses on novel pathways to high efficiency photovoltaics and nonlinear spectroscopies of organic systems.

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ISBN 13	9780750310635
ISBN 10	0750310634
Title	Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Author	Joel Yuenzhou
Series	Iop Expanding Physics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Institute of Physics Publishing
Year published	2014-09-05
Number of pages	145
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