Dear All,
David Tannor has been trying to post this announcement on m-d-n for some
time, but has been prevented by mysterious technical problems. So I'm
posting it for him. But please send any replies to him, at the address
below, and not to me.
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to a new book:
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics: A Time-dependent Perspective, by
David J. Tannor (University Science Books, Sausalito, 2007), 650pps.
Starting from basic pictures and concepts of wavepacket motion, the book
proceeds to applications at the frontier of modern chemical physics,
including femtochemistry, nonlinear spectroscopy, transition state
spectroscopy, coherent control, photodissociation and reactive
scattering, all from a time-dependent viewpoint.
Suitable for a graduate course in physical chemistry, or to enliven an
advanced undergraduate course in quantum mechanics or molecular
spectroscopy, the book is designed for theoreticians and
experimentalists alike. A website has been developed to accompany the
book, with animations and tutorials to go with most of the chapters.
For more information, see the publisher’s website
(www.uscibooks.com/tannor.htm) or the author’s website for the book
(www.weizmann.ac.il/chemphys/tannor/Book). Note that the book is sold at
a 10% discount ($76) if ordered directly from the publisher. A real bargain!
Contents
I Pictures and Concepts
1. The Time Dependent Schrödinger Equation
2. The Free Particle Wave Packet
3. The Gaussian Wavepacket
4. Classical-Quantum Correspondence
5. The Wigner Representation
6. Correlation Functions and Spectra
7. One Dimensional Barrier Scattering
II Formal Theory and Methods of Approximation
8. Linear Algebra and Quantum Mechanics
9. Approximate Solutions
10. Semiclassical Mechanics
11. Numerical Methods
III Applications
12. Introduction to Molecular Dynamics
13. Femtosecond Pulse Pair Excitation
14. One- and Two-Photon Electronic Spectroscopy
15. Strong Field Excitation
16. Design of Femtosecond Pulse Sequences to Control Reactions
17. Wavepacket Approach to Photodissociation
18. Wavepacket Approach to Reactive Scattering
Index
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Professor David J. Tannor
The Hermann Mayer Professorial Chair
Department of Chemical Physics
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot 76100 Israel
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www.weizmann.ac.il/chemphys/tannor
+972-8-934-2094 (office)
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