Stochasticity and Intramolecular Redistribution of Energy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Relevance of Chaos to Quantum Mechanics

   • Giulio Casati, Giorgio Mantica, Italo Guarneri

   Pages 1-13

3. Chaos in Molecular Systems?

   • Stavros C. Farantos, Jonathan Tennyson

   Pages 15-30

4. Correlation Properties of Sparse Real Symmetric Random Matrix

   • R. Jost

   Pages 31-43

5. Spectral Fluctuations: from Atomic Nuclei to Molecules

   • O. Bohigas

   Pages 45-55

6. Excited Vibrational States: Semiclassical Self-Consistent-Field and Statistical Considerations

   • Mark A. Ratner, R. B. Gerber, V. Buch

   Pages 57-80

7. Semiclassical Quantization by Using the Method of Adiabatic Switching of the Perturbation

   • H. S. Taylor, T. P. Grozdanov

   Pages 81-94

8. Effect of Diagonal and Off-Diagonal Disorder in the Multiphoton Excitation of an Active Mode Coupled to a Bath: Use of the Irreducible Recursive Residue Generation Method

   • Israel Schek, Robert E. Wyatt

   Pages 95-107

9. Semiclassical Dynamics in Phase Space; Time-Dependent Self-Consistent Field Approximation

   • Shaul Mukamel, Yi Jing Yan, Jonathan Grad

   Pages 109-121

10. Various Aspects of the Resonant State

    • R. Lefebvre, M. Garcia-Sucre

    Pages 123-132

11. The Spectroscopy and Photophysics of the Amino Acid Tryptophan in the Gas Phase

    • Thomas R. Rizzo, Donald H. Levy

    Pages 133-147

12. Excited Van Der Waals Complexes as a Probe for Intermediate States in Collisions

    • W. H. Breckenridge, O. Benoist d’Azy, M. C. Duval, C. Jouvet, B. Soep

    Pages 149-162

13. Van Der Waals Coupling Between Internal Rotation and Molecular Vibrations. The Methyl Rotor Effect on IVR

    • George E. Ewing, Robert J. Longfellow, David B. Moss, Charles S. Parmenter

    Pages 163-169

14. Rotation Vibration and Electronic Relaxation

    • A. Amirav, J. Jortner

    Pages 171-184

15. A Quantitative Determination of the Quantum Yield of the Fluorescence of the ∣B34 (0-0) State of Pyrazine

    • Jan Kommandeur

    Pages 185-191

16. Rotation Selective Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation in the S1-State of Benzene

    • S. F. Fischer, W. Dietz

    Pages 193-201

17. Doppler Free Excitation of Large Molecules and Nonradiative Decay of Individual Levels

    • E. Riedle, H. J. Neusser

    Pages 203-216

18. Conical Intersections and Ultrafast Radiationless Decay

    • W. Domcke, H. Köppel, L. S. Cederbaum

    Pages 217-231

19. Theoretical Studies of Photodissociation Dynamics in Large Clusters and in Solids

    • R. Alimi, A. Brokman, R. B. Gerber

    Pages 233-244

20. A Hyperspherical Coordinate Dissociative Correlation Scheme for H3 +

    • R. Pfeiffer, M. S. Child

    Pages 245-252

This volume contains the invited papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Stochasticity and Intramolecular Redistribution of Energy" held in Orsay (France) from June 23 to July 3, 1986. The Work­ shop brought together leading researchers involved in the experimental and the theoretical studies of vibrational energy flow and relaxation in activated polyatomic molecules. The recent experimental developments in this area include the study of ultracold molecules in supersonic beams and the development of high resolution (frequency domain) and ultrafast (time domain) spectroscopic techniques. On the theoretical side the intro­ duction of statistical methods (random matrix theory, reduced equations of motion) and efficient numerical algorithms provide an adequate frame­ work for the interpretation of vibrational dynamics in large polyatomic molecules. Classical, semiclassical and quantum calculations on simple model systems show the existence of regular and chaotic regions in the phase space. The articles in this volume provide an updated review of the current status of experimental studies and the relevance of the recent theoretical developments to their interpretation. We wish to thank the organizations which made this workshop possible. NATO prov ided the basic grant. We acknowledge the essential contribu­ tion of the late Dr Mario di Lullo in providing pertinent advice. The gen­ erous support of the U. S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the U. S.

• cluster
• collision
• molecule
• self-consistent field
• spectra
• spectroscopy

• Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire du CNRS, Orsay, France

  R. Lefebvre

• Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, New York, USA

  S. Mukamel

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