Ultrafast Spectroscopy: Quantum information and wavepackets / Edition 1

by Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Joel Yuen-Zhou, Jacob Krich, Ivan Kassal, Allan Johnson

Overview

A physically intuitive approach to nonlinear spectroscopy with practical applications through the modern lens of quantum information and wavepackets, and accompanied by MATLAB® code.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750310635
Publisher:	Iop Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	09/05/2014
Series:	IOP Expanding Physics
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	133
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Joel Yuen-Zhou is currently the Robert J Silbey Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center of Excitonics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jacob Krich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Ottawa. Ivan Kassal is UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland. Allan Johnson is a Marie-Curie Early Stage Researcher and NSERC PGS award holder in the Quantum Optics and Laser Science division at Imperial College London. Alán Aspuru-Guzik is a Professor at Harvard University in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. He received his doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and was the recipient of the 35 Innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review for his contributions to the intersection of quantum information and quantum chemistry.

Table of Contents

Preface
The authors
Glossary of common terms
Introduction
1 The process matrix and how to determine it: Quantum Process Tomography
2 Model systems and energy scales
3 Interaction of light pulses with arrays of chromophores: polarization gratings
4 Interaction of light pulses with arrays of chromophores: wavepackets
5 Putting it all together: QPT and Pump-Probe Spectroscopies
6 Computational methods for spectroscopy simulations
7 Conclusions
A Mathematical description of a short pulse of light
B Validity of time-dependent perturbation theory in the treatment of light-matter interaction
C Many-molecule quantum states of the array of chromophores interacting with coherent light
D Frequency-resolved spectroscopy
E Two-dimensional spectroscopy
F Isotropic averaging of signals