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- Editors:
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Oliver Kühn
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Institut f. Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Ludger Wöste
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Institut für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages I-XVIII
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- Albrecht Lindinger, Vlasta BonaČić-Koutecký, Roland Mitrić, David Tannor, Christiane P. Koch, Volker Engel et al.
Pages 25-152
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- Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký, Brina Brauer, Florian Burmeister, Wolfgang Eberhardt, R. Benny Gerber, Leticia González et al.
Pages 153-256
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- Matias Bargheer, Alexander Borowski, Arik Cohen, Mizuho Fushitani, R. Benny Gerber, Markus Gühr et al.
Pages 257-385
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- Christian Frischkorn, Martin Wolf, Ulrich Höfer, Jens Güdde, Peter Saalfrank, Mathias Nest et al.
Pages 387-484
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- Claus Peter Schulz, Tobias Burnus, Alberto Castro, E.K.U. Gross, Andreas Heidenreich, Ingolf V. Hertel1 et al.
Pages 485-617
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- Erik T.J. Nibbering, Jens Dreyer, Oliver Kühn, Jens Bredenbeck, Peter Hamm, Thomas Elsaesser
Pages 619-687
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- Alexander L. Dobryakov, Nikolaus P. Ernsting, Wojciech Gawelda, Christian Bressler, Majed Chergui
Pages 689-731
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- Henk Fidder, Karsten Heyne, Selma Schenkl, Frank van Mourik, Gert van der Zwan, Stefan Haacke et al.
Pages 733-828
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Back Matter
Pages 829-841
About this book
Dynamical processes in molecules like bond shaking, breaking or making c- monlytakeplaceonatimescalefromthepico-downtothefemtosecondrange. Theadventofequallyfastlasersourcesandreal-timeobservationschemeslike pump-probe spectroscopy has facilitated the direct insight into such processes wheninitiatedbylight. Inparallelthedevelopmentofadvancedcomputational methods treating the dynamics of photoexcited molecular systems allowed a convergence between theoretical description and experimental observation of such ultrafast dynamical processes. Consequently, the idea emerged, not only to analyze, but also to control molecular dynamics in real time by adequately designed light ?elds. Stimulated by theoretical concepts for in?uencing the motion of molecular wave packets by means of simple few-parameter elect- magnetic ?eld sequences, experiments were driven toward a practical reali- tion of arbitrarily shaped laser pulses. This development culminated in the active feedback control of even complex systems. In addition this o?ers the unique possibility not only to determine the outcome of chemical reactions, butalsotoretrievespeci?cinformationaboutthechosendynamicalpathways, that is, to perform analysis by control. This book illustrates a vital research ?eld by covering a broad spectrum of molecular systems with growing complexity while demonstrating at the same time the convergence of experimental and theoretical approaches. After a g- eral introduction in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 starts with small isolated molecules in the unperturbed environment of the gas phase and Chapter 3 proceeds to more complex systems, but still in vacuum. A higher level of complexity is then reached in Chapter 4 where small molecules in a rare gas matrices are discussed serving as prototypeexamples for condensed phase dynamics.
Editors and Affiliations
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Institut f. Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Oliver Kühn
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Institut für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Ludger Wöste
