Quantum Dynamics of Molecules

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. The Eckart Hamiltonian for Molecules — A Critical Exposition

   • B. T. Sutcliffe

   Pages 1-37

3. Foundations of Theoretical Chemistry

   • H. Primas

   Pages 39-113

4. Supersonic Molecular Beams and van der Waals Molecules

   • Donald H. Levy

   Pages 115-142

5. A General Phenomenology for Small Clusters, However Floppy

   • R. Stephen Berry

   Pages 143-195

6. The Generator Coordinate Method in Molecular Physics

   • P. Van Leuven, L. Lathouwers

   Pages 197-220

7. Generator Coordinate Theory of Diatomic Molecules

   • L. Lathouwers, P. Van Leuven

   Pages 221-237

8. Irreversible and Nonlinear Dynamics of Open Systems

   • E. B. Davies

   Pages 239-255

9. Quasiperiodic and Stochastic Intramolecular Dynamics: The Nature of Intramolecular Energy Transfer

   • Stuart A. Rice

   Pages 257-356

10. Manifestations of Parity Violations in Atomic and Molecular Systems

    • Robert A. Harris

    Pages 357-376

11. High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy of Molecules

    • W. Demtröder

    Pages 377-433

12. Spectral Properties of Atomic and Molecular Systems

    • J. M. Combes, R. Seiler

    Pages 435-482

13. Theory of Electron Molecule Collisions

    • P. G. Burke

    Pages 483-547

14. Back Matter

    Pages 549-557

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The Advanced Study Institute on "Quantum Dynamics of Molecules: The New Experimental Challenge to Theorists," which was sponsored by the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO, was held at Trinity Hall, Ca~bridge, England from September 15th till September 29th, 1979. In all, a total of 79 lecturers and students attended the meeting: they had diverse backgrounds in chemistry, physics and mathematics. In my proposal to NATO requesting financial support for an Advanced Study Institute, I suggested that molecular physics was facing a qualitatively new experimental situation in which the exploration of previously inaccessible dynamical phenomena would become of increasing importance. At the same time I was aware that in recent years powerful theoretical techniques, that might prove crucial tools for the interpretation of the new experiments, have been developed in mathematics and theoretical physics. The aim of the ASI was to review at an advanced level these recent developments, juxtaposing new theory with new experimental pos­ sibilities in the hope that the participants in the-Institute would through their subsequent work increase the awareness of the whole molecular theory community of the changing nature of chemical physics. The recent developments in laser spectroscopy, particle scatter­ ing experiments and molecular beam technology imply that an entirely new class of phenomena involving molecules in gasses and liquids can now be investigated.

• cluster
• collision
• molecular physics
• molecule
• nonlinear dynamics
• quantum dynamics
• spectra

• University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  R. G. Woolley

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