Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 156 E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: Advances in Chemical Physics
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 884

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Advances in Chemical Physics is the only series of volumes available that explores the cutting edge of research in chemical physics.

• This is the only series of volumes available that presents the cutting edge of research in chemical physics.
• Includes contributions from experts in this field of research.
• Contains a representative cross-section of research that questions established thinking on chemical solutions.
• Structured with an editorial framework that makes the book an excellent supplement to an advanced graduate class in physical chemistry or chemical physics.

Leseprobe

EDITORIAL BOARD

KURT BINDER

Condensed Matter Theory Group, Institut Für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany

WILLIAM T. COFFEY

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Printing House, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

KARL F. FREED

Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois USA

DAAN FRENKEL

Department of Chemistry, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

PIERRE GASPARD

Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

MARTIN GRUEBELE

Departments of Physics and Chemistry, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois USA

GERHARD HUMMER

Theoretical Biophysics Section, NIDDK-National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland USA

RONNIE KOSLOFF

Department of Physical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

KA YEE LEE

Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois USA

TODD J. MARTINEZ

Department of Chemistry, Photon Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California USA

SHAUL MUKAMEL

Department of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California USA

JOSE N. ONUCHIC

Department of Physics, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas USA

STEPHEN QUAKE

Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California USA

MARK RATNER

Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA

DAVID REICHMAN

Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York City, New York USA

GEORGE SCHATZ

Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA

STEVEN J. SIBENER

Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois USA

ANDREI TOKMAKOFF

Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois USA

DONALD G. TRUHLAR

Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

JOHN C. TULLY

Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

ADVANCES IN CHEMICAL PHYSICS

VOLUME 156

Edited BY

STUART A. RICE

Department of Chemistry and The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

AARON R. DINNER

Department of Chemistry and The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 58-9935

ISBN: 978-1-118-94969-6

CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 156

ANASTASSIA N. ALEXANDROVA

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA

LOUIS-S. BOUCHARD

California NanoSystems Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

DECLAN J. BYRNE

School of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

WILLIAM T. COFFEY

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

MARJOLEIN DIJKSTRA

Soft Condensed Matter group, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands

WILLIAM J. DOWLING

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

M. HAYASHI

Condensed Matter Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

YURI P. KALMYKOV

Laboratoire de Mathèmatiques et Physique, Universitè de Perpignan Via Domitia, 54, Avenue Paul Alduy, F-66860 Perpignan, France

C.K. LIN

Condensed Matter Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

S.H. LIN

Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

G. ALI MANSOORI

Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-7052, USA

Y.L. NIU

The State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

RANKO RICHERT

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1604, USA

STUART A. RICE

Department of Chemistry and the James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

ASAF SHIMSHOVITZ

Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100 Israel

NORIO TAKEMOTO

Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100 Israel

DAVID J. TANNOR

Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100 Israel

SERGUEY V. TITOV

Kotel'nikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vvedenskii Square 1, Fryazino, Moscow Region, 141190, Russian Federation

L. YANG

Institute of Theoretical and Simulation Chemistry, Academy of Fundamental and Interdisciplinary Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

C.Y. ZHU

Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

PREFACE TO THE SERIES

Advances in science often involve initial development of individual specialized fields of study within traditional disciplines followed by broadening and overlap, or even merging, of those specialized fields, leading to a blurring of the lines between traditional disciplines. The pace of that blurring has accelerated in the last few decades, and much of the important and exciting research carried out today seeks to synthesize elements from different fields of knowledge. Examples of such research areas include biophysics and studies of nanostructured materials. As the study of the forces that govern the structure and dynamics of molecular systems, chemical physics encompasses these and many other emerging research directions. Unfortunately, the flood of scientific literature has been accompanied by losses in the shared vocabulary and approaches of the traditional disciplines, and there is much pressure from scientific journals to be ever more concise in the descriptions of studies, to the point that much valuable experience, if recorded at all, is hidden in supplements and dissipated with time. These trends in science and publishing make this series, Advances in Chemical Physics, a much needed resource.

The Advances in Chemical Physics is devoted to helping the reader obtain general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics, a field that we interpret very broadly. Our intent is to have experts present comprehensive analyses of subjects of interest and to encourage the expression of individual points of view. We hope that this approach to the presentation of an overview of a subject will both stimulate new research and serve as a personalized learning text for beginners in a field.

STUART A. RICE AARON R. DINNER

CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Phase Space Approach to Solving The SchrÖdinger Equation: Thinking Inside the Box

I. Introduction

II. Theory

III. Application to Ultrafast Pulses

IV. Applications to Quantum Mechanics

V. Applications to Audio and Image Processing

VI. Conclusions and Future Prospects

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 2: Entropy-Driven Phase Transitions In Colloids: From spheres to anisotropic particles

I. Introduction

II. Predicting Candidate Crystal Structures

III. Free-Energy Calculations

IV. Bulk Phase Diagram and Kinetic Pathways

V. Phase Diagrams of Binary Hard-Sphere Mixtures

VI. Phase Diagrams of Anisotropic Hard Particles

VII. Entropy Strikes Back Once More

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 3: Sub-Nano Clusters: The Last Frontier of Inorganic Chemistry

I. Introduction

II. Chemical Bonding Phenomena in Clusters

III. Cluster-Based Technologies and Opportunities

IV. Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 4: Supercooled Liquids and Glasses by Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy

I. Introduction

II. Permittivity Fundamentals

III. Response Functions

IV. Linear Experimental Techniques

V. Nonlinear Experimental Techniques

VI. Applications

VII. Concluding Remarks and Outlook

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 5: Confined Fluids: Structure, Properties and Phase Behavior

I. Introduction

II. Macroscopic Description of Nanoconfined Fluids

III. The Density Functional Theory Description of Confined Fluids

IV. Structure and Phase Behavior in Confined Colloid Suspensions

V. Nanoconfined Water

VI. Epilogue

References

Chapter 6: Theories and Quantum Chemical Calculations of Linear and Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopies, and Intramolecular Vibrational Redistribution and Density Matrix Treatment of Ultrafast Dynamics

I. Introduction

II. Recent Developments of Spectroscopies and Dynamics of Molecules

III. Theory and Applications of SFG

IV. Intramolecular Vibrational Redistribution

V. Ultrafast Dynamics and Density Matrix Method

References

Chapter 7: On The Kramers Very Low Damping Escape Rate for Point Particles and Classical Spins

I. Introduction

II. The Contribution of Kramers to Escape Rate Theory

III. Energy-Controlled Diffusion Equation for Particles with Separable and Additive Hamiltonians

IV. Energy-Controlled Diffusion of Classical Spins

V. Conclusion

Appendix A: Longest Relaxation Time for a Double-Well Potential, Eq. (13), in the VLD Limit

Appendix B: Undamped Limit for Biaxial Anisotropy

References

Author Index

Subject Index

End User License Agreement

List of Tables

Chapter 2

Table I

Chapter 4

Table I

Table II

Table III

Chapter 5

Table I

Chapter 6

Table I

Table II

Table III

Table IV

Table V

Table VI

Table VII

Table VIII

Table IX

Table X

Table XI