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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784806703321

Autore

Nakamura Hiroki

Titolo

Nonadiabatic transition [[electronic resource] ] : concepts, basic theories and applications / / by Hiroki Nakamura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, c2002

ISBN

981-277-840-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 376 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

530.4/74

Soggetti

Charge exchange

Phase transformations (Statistical physics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-370) and index.

Nota di contenuto

ch. 1. Introduction: what is "nonadiabatic transition"? -- ch. 2. Multi-disciplinarity. 2.1. Physics. 2.2. Chemistry. 2.3. Biology. 2.4. Economics -- ch. 3. Historical survey of theoretical studies. 3.1. Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg theory. 3.2. Rosen-Zener-Demkov theory. 3.3. Nikitin's exponential model. 3.4. Nonadiabatic transition due to Coriolis coupling and dynamical state representation -- ch. 4. Background mathematics. 4.1. Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin semiclassical theory. 4.2. Stokes phenomenon -- ch. 5. Basic two-state theory for time-independent processes. 5.1. Exact solutions of the linear curve crossing problems. 5.2. Complete semiclassical solutions of general curve crossing problems. 5.3. Non-curve-crossing case. 5.4. Exponential potential model. 5.5. Mathematical implications -- ch. 6. Basic two-state theory for time-dependent processes. 6.1. Exact solution of quadratic potential problem. 6.2. Semiclassical solution in general case. 6.3. Other exactly solvable models -- ch. 7. Two-state problems. 7.1. Diagrammatic technique. 7.2. Inelastic scattering. 7.3. Elastic scattering with resonances and predissociation. 7.4. Perturbed bound states. 7.5. Time-dependent periodic crossing problems -- ch. 8. Effects of dissipation and fluctuation -- ch. 9. Multi-channel problems. 9.1. Exactly solvable models. 9.2. Semiclassical theory of time-independent multi-channel problems. 9.3. Time-dependent problems -- ch. 10. Multi-dimensional problems. 10.1. Classification of surface crossing. 10.2. Reduction to one-dimensional multi-channel problem. 10.3.



Semiclassical propagation method -- ch. 11. Complete reflection and bound states in the continuum. 11.1. One NT-type crossing case. 11.2. Diabatically avoided crossing (DAC) case. 11.3. Two NT-type crossings case -- ch. 12. New mechanism of molecular switching. 12.1. Basic idea. 12.2. One-dimensional model. 12.3. Two-dimensional model. 12.4. Numerical examples -- ch. 13. Control of nonadiabatic processes by an external field. 13.1. Control of nonadiabatic transitions by periodically sweeping external field. 13.2. Basic theory. 13.3. Numerical examples. 13.4. Laser control of photodissociation with use of the complete reflection phenomenon -- ch. 14. Conclusions: future perspectives.

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of the concepts, basic theories and applications of nonadiabatic transition. Nonadiabatic transition is a multidisciplinary concept and phenomenon, constituting a fundamental mechanism of state and phase changes in various dynamical processes of physics, chemistry and biology.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910439057303321

Titolo

Studia białorutenistyczne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lublin, : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, 2007-

ISSN

2449-8270

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Belarusian literature

Belarusian language

Periodicals.

Belarus Periodicals

Belarus

Lingua di pubblicazione

Polacco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed