Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 114

by Prigogine, Ilya; Rice, Stuart A.

• ISBN13: 9780471392675
• ISBN10: 0471392677
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Summary

Providing the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations in every area of the discipline, the latest volume of Advances in Chemical Physics continues to provide significant, up-to-date chapters written by internationally recognized researchers. This volume is essentially devoted to helping the reader obtain general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics. Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 114 includes chapters addressing vibrational energy flow, discrete variable representations and their utilization, the unified theory of photochemical charge separation, and the association, dissociation, acceleration, and suppression of reactions by laser pulses.

Author Biography

ILYA PRIGOGINE is Director of the Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie, E. Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Dr. Prigogine is also the Ashbel Smith Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Director of the Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems. In 1977 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

STUART A. RICE received his master's and doctorate from Harvard University and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard for two years before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago in 1957 where he remains a well-known theoretical chemist who also does experimental research and is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago. Professor Rice has served the university in a wide variety of capacities during his forty-eight year tenure. He served as the director of the James Franck Institute (the university's center for physical chemistry and condensed matter physics) from 1961 to 1967, was Chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1971 to 1976 and was Dean of the Physical Sciences Division from 1981 to 1995. In 1999 he received the National Medal of Science.
In addition to his work at the University, he is currently on the Board of Governors at Argonne National Laboratory, managed by and affiliated with The University of Chicago, as well as Tel Aviv University. He has served as editor for Chemical Physics Letters, in addition to the series on Advances in Chemical Physics. He currently maintains a full research lab but has retired from teaching classes.

Table of Contents

The Decoupling of Electronic and Nuclear Motions in the Isolated Molecule Schrodinger Hamiltonian	1	(122)
Brian Sutcliffe
Association, Dissociation, and the Acceleration and Suppression of Reactions by Laser Pulses	123	(70)
Moshe Shapiro
Vibrational Energy Flow: A State Space Approach	193	(70)
M. Gruebele
Discrete-Variable Representations and Their Utilization	263	(48)
John C. Light
Tucker Carrington, Jr.
Above and Below the Wannier Threshold	311	(108)
Arlene M. Loughan
Unified Theory of Photochemical Charge Separation	419	(170)
A. I. Burshtein
Author Index	589	(14)
Subject Index	603