Getting Started on Time-Resolved Molecular Spectroscopy

Aimed at graduate students in physics and physical chemistry, this textbook provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to ultrafast spectroscopy. Each chapter is designed to be self-contained and includes in-text exercises to illustrate or expand upon the ideas covered in the main text.

List of contents

• 1: Short-pulse electronic absorption


• 2: Adiabatic approximation


• 3: Transient-absorption spectroscopy: making ultrashort pulses worthwhile


• 4: How fissors works: femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy as a probe of conformational change


• 5: Transient-absorption reprise: taking advantage of vibrational adiabaticity


• 6: Two and a half approaches to two-dimensional wave-packet interferometry


• 7: Two-dimensional wave-packet interferometry for an electronic energy-transfer dimer

About the author

Jeff Cina earned a BS in Mathematics at UW-Madison, a PhD in Theoretical Physical Chemistry at UC-Berkeley, and carried out post-doctoral research at MIT. After teaching and conducting research at The University of Chicago, he joined the faculty at the University of Oregon in 1995. At Oregon, Cina was a founding member of the Oregon Center for Optics, now the Oregon Center for Optical, Molecular, and Quantum Science.

Summary

Aimed at graduate students in physics and physical chemistry, this textbook provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to ultrafast spectroscopy. Each chapter is designed to be self-contained and includes in-text exercises to illustrate or expand upon the ideas covered in the main text.

Additional text

This wonderful textbook by Jeffrey Cina is a timely and much needed reference to learn how to interpret and design ultrafast spectroscopy experiments in terms of quantum molecular dynamics. It offers fresh and invaluable physical insights for both incoming graduate students as well as more established researchers in Physical Chemistry and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey A. Cina, Jeffrey A. (University of Oregon) Cina
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780199590315
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959031-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Theoretical chemistry; SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Analytic, SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity, SCIENCE / Physics / Magnetism, SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, Spectrum analysis, spectrochemistry, mass spectrometry, Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism