Quantum Mechanical Foundations of Molecular Spectroscopy. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Max Diem.
• Authors: Diem, Max
• Contents: Preface; Introduction; ; 1 TRANSITION FROM CLASSICAL PHYSICS TO QUANTUM MECHANICS; 1.1 Description of Light as a Wave; 1.2 Black Body Radiation; 1.3 Photoelectric Effect; 1.4 H-Atom Absorption and Emission; 1.5 Molecular Spectroscopy; 1.6 Summary; ; 2 PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS; 2.1 Postulates of Quantum Mechanics; 2.2 Potential Energy and Potential Functions; 2.3 Demonstration of Quantum Mechanical Principles for a Simple, One-Dimensional, One-Electron Model System: The Particle-in-a-Box ("PiB"); 2.4 Two-Dimensional PiB, the Unbound Particle, and the PiB with Finite Energy Barriers; 2.5 Real-World PiBs: Poly-Enes, Quantum Dots and Quantum Cascade Lasers; ; 3 PERTURBATION OF STATIONARY STATES BY ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; 3.1 Time Dependent Perturbation Treatment of Stationary State Systems by EM Radiation; 3.2 Dipole-Allowed Transition and Selection Rules for the PiB; 3.3 Einstein Coefficients for the Absorption and Emission of Light; 3.4 Lasers; ; 4 THE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR, A MODEL SYSTEM FOR THE DIATOMIC MOLECULES; 4.1 The Harmonic Oscillator Schrödinger Equation, Energy Eigenvalues and Wave Functions; 4.2 The Transition Moment for the Harmonic Oscillator; 4.3 Real Diatomic Molecules, Anharmonicity; 4.4 Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecules; ; 5 VIBRATIONAL INFRARED AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF POLYATOMIC MOLECULES; 5.1 Vibrational Energy of Polyatomic Molecules; 5.2 Transition Moments and Symmetry-Based Selection Rules in Absorption; 5.3 Polarizability, Raman Scattering and Symmetry-Based Selection Rules in Scattering; 5.4 Practical Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy; ; 6 ROTATION OF RIGID MOLECULES: ROTATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY; 6.1 Classical Rotational Energy; 6.2 Quantum Mechanics of Rotational Spectroscopy, Selection Rules; 6.3 Rot-Vibrational Transitions; ; 7 H ATOM AND MANY-ELECTRON ATOMS; 7.1 Eigenfunctions, Eigenvalues and Orbitals for the Hydrogen Atom; 7.2 Many Electron Atoms, Slater Orbitals, and the Periodic Chart; 7.3 Atomic Spectra; ; 8 ELECTRONIC STATES AND SPECTROSCOPY OF POLYATOMIC MOLECULES; 8.1 Electronic Energy Levels of Polyatomic Molecules; 8.2 Ultraviolet and Visible Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules; ; 9 INTERACTION OF ELECTRONIC AND VIBRATIONAL ENERGY LEVELS; 9.1 Introduction to Vibronic Theory; 9.2 Fluorescence Spectroscopy; 9.3 Recent Advances and Biological Applications of Fluorescence Spectroscopy; ; 10 SPIN STATES AND SPIN SPECTROSCOPY; 10.1 The Angular Momentum Operator Revisited, and Spin States; 10.2 Transitions Between Spin States; 10.3 Basic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; ; Appendix I. Constants and Their Numerical Values; Appendix II. Mathematical Principles; Appendix III. Perturbation Methods; Appendix IV. Group Theory; Appendix V. Fourier Transforms and Fourier Transform Spectroscopies;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Wiley-VCH
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783527829606
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