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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)
      Weight & Pages:
      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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