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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      09 October 2009
      30 March 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511564093
      9780521673440
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511564093
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.525kg, 324 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Optics, Optoelectronics and Photonics, Physics and Astronomy, Atomic Physics, Molecular Physics and Chemical Physics
      Series:
      Cambridge Monographs on Atomic, Molecular and Chemical Physics (4)
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    Subjects:
    Optics, Optoelectronics and Photonics, Physics and Astronomy, Atomic Physics, Molecular Physics and Chemical Physics
    Series:
    Cambridge Monographs on Atomic, Molecular and Chemical Physics (4)
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    This book explains the theory and methods by which gas molecules can be polarized by light, a subject of considerable importance for what it tells us about the electronic structure of molecules and properties of chemical reactions. Starting with a brief review of molecular angular momentum, the text goes on to consider resonant absorption, fluorescence, photodissociation and photoionization, as well as collisions and static fields. A variety of macroscopic effects are considered, among them angular distribution and the polarization of emitted light, ground state depopulation, laser-induced dichroism, the effect of collisions and external magnetic and electric field effects. Most examples in the book are for diatomic molecules, but symmetric-top polyatomic molecules are also included. The book concludes with a short appendix of essential formulae, tables for vector calculus, spherical functions, Wigner rotation matrices, Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, and methods for expansion over irreducible tensors.

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    ‘This volume has very thoroughly been prepared and edited. 405 literature citations … and a well prepared subject index complete the work which is worth its price.’

    U.-W. Grummt Source: Zeitschrift für Physicalische Chemie

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