1: Introduction
2: Quantum Dynamics in Hilbert Space
3: The Density Operator and Quantum Dynamics in Liouville Space
4: Quantum Electrodynamics, Optical Polarization, and Nonlinear
Spectroscopy
5: Nonlinear Response Functions and Optical Susceptibilities
6: The Optical Response Functions of a Multilevel System with
Relaxation
7: Semiclassical Simulation of the Optical Response Functions
8: The Cumulant Expansion and the Multimode Brownian Oscillator
Model
9: Fluorescence, Spontaneous-Raman and Coherent-Raman
Spectroscopy
10: Selective Elimination of Inhomogeneous Broadening; Photon
Echoes
11: Resonant Gratings, Pump-Probe, and Hole Burning
Spectroscopy
12: Wavepacket Dynamics in Liouville Space; The Wigner
Representation
13: Wavepacket Analysis of Nonimpulsive Measurements
14: Off-Resonance Raman Scattering
15: Polarization Spectroscopy; Birefringence and Dichroism
16: Nonlinear Response of Molecular Assemblies; The Local-Field
Approximation
17: Many Body and Cooperative Effects in the Nonlinear Response
"In this book [Mukamel] has brought his many contributions together
and has woven a fabric that brilliantly ties fundamental principles
to experiment with an elegant formalism. This book is of
extraordinary value to both the advanced student and researcher in
the field. "[It] is written in such a way that it serves as both an
advanced text as well as a reference book for the experimentalist.
Prof. Mukamel has developed a very powerful unified correlation
approach that is applicable to condensed phase systems as well the
gas phase. The book provides Green's function techniques which are
useful for interpreting nonlinear spectra of frequency and time
domain
nonlinear spectra of frequency and time domain complex systems.
Several applications of current interest are treated in the book
including Raman spectrocopies, photon echoes, pump-probe, hole
burning, polarization spectroscopies, and impulsive effects.
"Possibly the most important contribution made by this book is that
it brings together the techniques of nonlinear spectrosopies with
analytical and conceptual foundations that make an important step
toward creating a new science for probing the properties of
matter."--Charles V. Shank, Director, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
"I can recommend this book wholeheartedly both as a textbook in a
graduate course in modern fast spectroscopy and as a reference
mongraph for researchers in the field."--Robert J. Silbey, Journal
of the American Chemical Society
"Professor Mukamel, a well known and accomplished theoretical
physical chemist, has written an up-to-date and comprehensive
monograph/textbook on nonlinear optical spectroscopy. Although the
focus is theoretical, the attention paid to describing modern
experiments is noteworthy. This book is unusual in its
completeness: the theoretical development assumes only a standard
quantum mechanics course, but goes all the way to the most recent
developments; the
attention to experiments and what can be learned about molecular
dynamics from them is as deep and definitive as the theory. I can
recommend this book wholeheartedly both as a textbook in a graduate
course in
modern fast spectroscopy, and as a reference monograph for
researchers in the field."--Robert J. Sibley, MIT, in the Journal
of the American Chemical Society
"Mukamel has developed a powerful and intuitively satisfying
description of dynamical nonlinear spectroscopy which allows the
enormous variety of nonlinear spectroscopies to be described and
analyzed on a common footing. A student who has mastered graduate
quantum mechanics should be able to cope with this material. This
book is likely to be essential reading for workers in a wide
variety of fields impinging on the dynamics of complex, condensed
phase systems.
The book will be important both for the design of new experiments
as well as their analysis. Mukamel is to be congratulated on this
superb book, and his publisher deserves credit for keeping the
price
within the reach of graduate students and their
professors."--Graham R. Fleming, University of California,
Berkeley, and Director, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory
"This book is mandatory for workers at the frontier of condensed
phase nonlinear spectroscopy. The author is uniquely capable of
putting this material together. The book is clearly a work of love.
It is complete, deep, and authoritative. The writing has the
clarity and coherence expected for a single-author work."--John C.
Wright, University of Wisconsin, in Analytical Chemistry
"The book is well-organized and contains many references and an
extensive index. It is ideal for graduate and post-doctorate
students. It is also invaluable for senior staff wishing to become
educated on the theoretical state-of-the-art in this field.
Stimulated by the recent developments in ultrafast laser
technology, progress in the field of nonlinear optical spectroscopy
occurs at an increasing pace. Because of Mukamels book there is
hope that scientists
worldwide will speak a common language, easing communication and
stimulating cooperation." --Douwe A. Wiersma, University of
Groningen, in Optics and Photonics News
* This review takes up two fields (too long to fit into one) "In
this book [Mukamel] has brought his many contributions together and
has woven a fabric that brilliantly ties fundamental principles to
experiment with an elegant formalism. This book is of extraordinary
value to both the advanced student and researcher in the field.
"[It] is written in such a way that it serves as both an advanced
text as well as a reference book for the experimentalist. Prof.
Mukamel has developed a very powerful unified correlation approach
that is applicable to condensed phase systems as well the gas
phase. The book provides Green's function techniques which are
useful for
interpreting nonlinear spectra of frequency and time domain
nonlinear spectra of frequency and time domain complex systems.
Several applications of current interest are treated in the book
including Raman spectrocopies, photon echoes, pump-probe, hole
burning, polarization spectroscopies, and impulsive effects.
"Possibly the most important contribution made by this book is that
it brings together the techniques of nonlinear spectrosopies with
analytical and conceptual foundations that make an important step
toward creating a new science for probing the properties of
matter."--Charles V. Shank, Director, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
"I can recommend this book wholeheartedly both as a textbook in a
graduate course in modern fast spectroscopy and as a reference
mongraph for researchers in the field."--Robert J. Silbey, Journal
of the American Chemical Society
"An excellent account of the application of modern Liouville space
methods to the theory of nonlinear optical spectroscopy by a
pioneer of this approach."--Marvin D. Girardeau, University of
Oregon
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