Overview
- Presents the latest research results in ultrafast imaging of quantum phenomena
- Demonstrates the wide-ranging potential of quantum dynamic imaging for R&D in areas as diverse as optoelectronics, materials science, and quantum information
- Edited and written by international leaders in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: CRM Series in Mathematical Physics (CRM)
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Studying and using light or "photons" to image and then to control and transmit molecular information is among the most challenging and significant research fields to emerge in recent years. One of the fastest growing areas involves research in the temporal imaging of quantum phenomena, ranging from molecular dynamics in the femto (10-15s) time regime for atomic motion to the atto (10-18s) time scale of electron motion. In fact, the attosecond "revolution" is now recognized as one of the most important recent breakthroughs and innovations in the science of the 21st century. A major participant in the development of ultrafast femto and attosecond temporal imaging of molecular quantum phenomena has been theory and numerical simulation of the nonlinear, non-perturbative response of atoms and molecules to ultrashort laser pulses. Therefore, imaging quantum dynamics is a new frontier of science requiring advanced mathematical approaches for analyzing and solving spatial and temporal multidimensional partial differential equations such as Time-Dependent Schroedinger Equations (TDSE) and Time-Dependent Dirac equations (TDDEs for relativistic phenomena). These equations are also coupled to the photons in Maxwell's equations for collective propagation effects. Inversion of the experimental imaging data of quantum dynamics presents new mathematical challenges in the imaging of quantum wave coherences on subatomic (subnanometer) spatial dimensions and multiple timescales from atto to femto and even nanoseconds. In Quantum Dynamic Imaging: Theoretical and Numerical Methods, leading researchers discuss these exciting state-of-the-art developments and their implications for R&D in view of the promise of quantum dynamic imaging science as the essential tool for controlling matter at the molecular level.
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“This volume brings together lectures by invited speakers at the first workshop held in Canada on quantum dynamic imaging. … This book presents an impressive array of theoretical tools which can be applied in this context. … Most readers will be able to appreciate the value of the various techniques. … researchers in this field will benefit the most from this useful and usable volume.” (K. Alan Shore, Optics & Photonics News, February, 2012)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantum Dynamic Imaging
Book Subtitle: Theoretical and Numerical Methods
Editors: André D. Bandrauk, Misha Ivanov
Series Title: CRM Series in Mathematical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9491-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-9490-5Published: 12 July 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4083-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-9491-2Published: 12 July 2011
Series ISSN: 2627-7654
Series E-ISSN: 2627-7662
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 236
Topics: Quantum Optics, Physical Chemistry, Optical and Electronic Materials, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering