Introduction to Cluster Dynamics

by Reinhard, Paul-Gerhard; Suraud, Eric

• ISBN13: 9783527403455
• ISBN10: 3527403450
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-19
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Summary

Clusters as mesoscopic particles represent an intermediate state of matter between single atoms and solid material. The tendency to miniaturise technical objects requires knowledge about systems which contain a "small" number of atoms or molecules only. This is all the more true for dynamical aspects, particularly in relation to the qick development of laser technology and femtosecond spectroscopy. Here, for the first time is a highly qualitative introduction to cluster physics. With its emphasis on cluster dynamics, this will be vital to everyone involved in this interdisciplinary subject. The authors cover the dynamics of clusters on a broad level, including recent developments of femtosecond laser spectroscopy on the one hand and time-dependent density functional theory calculations on the other.

Author Biography

<b>Paul-Gerhard Reinhard</b> has been professor for Theoretical Physics at the Friedrich-Alexander university Erlangen/N&#252;rnberg since 1983. He received his PhD in 1970 at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe university Frankfurt. His post-doctoral studies brought him to Erlangen, Oxford, and Mainz. He obtained his Habilitation in 1977 at the Johannes-Gutenberg university in Mainz. He was fellow of the Heisenberg program in the years 1978-1983. His present research interests cover cluster physics, nuclear structure physics and plasma physics. <p> <b>Eric Suraud</b> has been professor for Theoretical Physics at the Paul-Sabatier university in Toulouse, France, since 1992. He received his PhD in 1984 at the Paris university and his Habilitation in 1989 at the Grenoble university. He was junior member of Institut Universitaire de France in 1994-1999. He is presently director of the Institute de Recherche sur les Systemes Atomiques et Moleculaires Complexes in Toulouse and Vice Director of Institut de Physique Nucl&#233;aire et des Particules at CNRS in Paris. His present research interests mostly cover cluster physics and nuclear dynamics. <p> &#160;

Table of Contents

Preface
About clusters	p. 1
From clusters to numbers: experimental aspects	p. 39
The cluster many-body problem: a theoretical perspective	p. 79
Gross properties and trends	p. 133
New frontiers in cluster dynamics	p. 179
Concluding remarks	p. 247
Conventions of notations, symbols, units, acronyms	p. 251
Gross properties of atoms and solids	p. 259
Some details on basic techniques from molecular physics and quantum chemistry	p. 267
More on pseudo-potentials	p. 271
More on density functional theory	p. 275
Fermi gas model and semi-classics	p. 281
Linearized TDLDA and related approaches	p. 287
Numerical considerations	p. 291
Bibliography	p. 297
Index	p. 315
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