Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Molecular Systems

Now expanded by 15% to include more details on electron structure computations, recent developments in density matrix theory, mixed quantum-classical methods for dynamic simulations and more on transient spectroscopy, this book provides a unified description of different charge and energy transfer phenomena in molecular systems.
Adopting an easy-to-follow style, making even complex concepts understandable and applicable, the authors manage to bridge the regimes of coherent and dissipative dynamics and thus establish the connection between classic rate theories and modern treatments of ultrafast phenomena. Starting from microscopic models, the common features of the different transfer processes are highlighted with applications ranging from vibrational energy flow in large polyatomic molecules, via the motion of protons in solution, right up to the concerted dynamics of electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom in molecules and molecular aggregates. Supplementd by electronic tutorials including exercises based on the Mathematica program package.
With its knowledge a necessary prerequisite for realizing applications in molecular electronics, photovoltaics, and semiconductor physics, this is the one-stop resource for physicists and chemists working experimentally or theoretically on molecular processes.

Auteur

Volkhard May studied physics at Humboldt University, Berlin, and received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1981, and his Habilitation at the College of Education, Güstrow, in 1987. He worked in the Department of Biophysics at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Berlin from 1987 to 1991, and has been a senior researcher at the Instiute of Physics, Humboldt University, since 1992. His current research activities focus on the theory of transfer phenomena in molecular nanostructures.

Oliver Kühn studied physics at Humboldt University, Berlin. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics in 1995, he worked as a postdoc first at the University of Rochester, USA, then at Lund University, Sweden. From 1997 to 2007, Prof. Kühn has been a senior researcher at the Institute of Chemistry, Free University Berlin, where he earned his habilitation in 2000. Since 2008 he is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Rostock. His current research interests lie in ultrafast spectroscopy and dynamics of condensed phase systems such as biomolecular hydrogen bonds and excitons in molecular aggregates.