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- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Oxford, England
- Explores new methods of simulating radical pair reactions and their application to real systems
- Provides a detailed discussion of the theory of spin dynamics
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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This book sheds new light on the dynamical behaviour of electron spins in molecules containing two unpaired electrons (i.e. a radical pair). The quantum dynamics of these spins are made complicated by the interaction between the electrons and the many nuclear spins of the molecule; they are intractable using analytical techniques, and a naïve numerical diagonalization is not remotely possible using current computational resources. Hence, this book presents a new method for obtaining the exact quantum-mechanical dynamics of radical pairs with a modest number of nuclear spins. Readers will learn how a calculation that would take 13 years using conventional wavepacket propagation can now be done in 1 day, and will also discover a new semiclassical method for approximating the dynamics in the presence of many nuclear spins.
The new methods covered in this book are shown to provide significant insights into three topical and diverse areas: charge recombination in molecular wires(which can be used in artificially mimicking photosynthesis), magnetoelectroluminescence in organic light-emitting diodes, and avian magnetoreception (how birds sense the Earth’s magnetic field in order to navigate).
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Book Title: Spin Dynamics in Radical Pairs
Authors: Alan Lewis
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00686-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00685-3Published: 22 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13142-5Published: 10 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00686-0Published: 12 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 156
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physical Chemistry, Magnetism, Magnetic Materials, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry