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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 December 2009
      09 January 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511615085
      9780521556057
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511615085
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      (246 x 189 mm)
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      0.922kg, 442 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Physics and Astronomy, Condensed Matter Physics, Nanoscience and Mesoscopic Physics
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    A unifying element that links the apparently diverse phenomena observed in optical processes is the dielectric dispersion of matter. It describes the response of matter to incoming electromagnetic waves and charged particles, and thus predicts their behavior in the self-induced field of matter, known as polariton and polaron effects. The energies of phonon, exciton and plasmon, quanta of collective motions of charged particles constituting the matter, are also governed by dielectric dispersion. Since the latter is a functional of the former, one can derive useful relations for their self-consistency. Nonlinear response to laser light inclusive of multiphoton processes, and excitation of atomic inner shells by synchrotron radiation, are also described. Within the configuration coordinate model, photo-induced lattice relaxation and chemical reaction are described equally to both ground and relaxed excited states, to provide a novel and global perspective on structural phase transitions and the nature of interatomic bonds. This book was first published in 2003.

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    • Frontmatter
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    • Contents
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    • Preface
      pp ix-xi
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    • Acknowledgments
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    • List of principal symbols
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    • 1 - Radiation field
      pp 1-9
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    • 2 - Quantum mechanics
      pp 10-27
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    • 3 - Interaction of radiation with matter
      pp 28-39
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    • 4 - Electronic vs. nuclear motions and the optical spectra of localized electrons in solids
      pp 40-68
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    • 5 - Lattice vibrations
      pp 69-88
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    • 6 - Electric susceptibility and dielectric constant
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    • 7 - One-electron states in solids
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    • 8 - Excitons
      pp 113-148
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    • 9 - Polaron and the self-trapped state
      pp 149-191
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    • 10 - Optical spectra of exciton in the phonon field Overview
      pp 192-238
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    • 11 - Higher-order optical processes
      pp 239-283
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    • 12 - Inner-shell excitation
      pp 284-318
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    • 13 - Photo-induced structural changes
      pp 319-370
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    • 14 - Light, matter and life (A scenario for the origin of life and its evolution)
      pp 371-390
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    • Appendix 1 - Derivation of exciton Hamiltonian from many-body Hamiltonian
      pp 391-394
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    • Appendix 2 - Transient spectra for second-order optical processes
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    • References (by chapter)
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    • Subject index
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