Unstable States in the Continuous Spectra

Presents surveys of the developments in the field of quantum chemistry. This title includes articles, invited reviews and proceedings of major international conferences and workshops. It is written by some of the leading international researchers in quantum and theoretical chemistry. It highlights important interdisciplinary developments.

Unstable states: from quantum mechanics to statistical physics - Ivana Paidarova & Philippe Durand Unstable States in Laser Assisted and Controlled Molecular Processes - O. Atabek, Roland Lefebvre & Nguyen-Dang Coherence Effects in Laser-Induced Continuum Structure - Ioannis Thanopulos & Moshe Shapiro Theory and State-Specific Methods for the Analysis and Computation of Field-Free and Field-Induced Unstable States in Atoms and Molecules - Cleanthes A. Nicolaides Normal Form Theory and Transition States in Phase Space - Stephen Wiggins & Arseni Goussev The State-Specific Expansion Approach to the Solution of the Polyelectronic Time-Dependent Schroedinger Equation for Atoms and Molecules in Unstable States - Cleanthes A. Nicolaides, Theodoros Mercouris and Yannis Komninos Theory of resonant states: An exact analytical approach for open quantum systems - Gaston Garcia-Calderon Photon Wavepackets in Free Space - Gernot Alber, Magdalena Stobinska & G. Leuchs Long-Time Deviations from Exponential Decay - Gonzalo Muga, Donald W.L. Sprung, Joan Martorell & E. Torrontegui