Clusters, ultrafast dynamics

Sec. 2 presents the CSP method, while an improved approach built on it (CI-CSP) is described in Sec. 3. Sec. 4 gives some examples of applications of the CSP and CI-CSP methods to the photochemical ultrafast dynamics in clusters. Directions for future progress and improvements are discussed in Sec. 5. 

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ANALYSIS AND CONTROL OF ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS IN CLUSTERS THEORY AND EXPERIMENT ... 

We thank our co-workers M. Hartmann, A. Heidenreich, J. Hagen, J. Pittner, D. Reichardt, B. Schafer-Bung, and L. D. Socaciu-Siebert, who have substantially contributed to the theoretical and experimental studies of analysis and control of ultrafast dynamics in clusters, which were included in this chapter. This work has been supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) SFB 450, Analysis and control of ultrafast photoinduced reactions. ... 

Dynamics. Cluster dynamics constitutes a rich held, which focused on nuclear dynamics on the time scale of nuclear motion—for example, dissociahon dynamics [181], transihon state spectroscopy [177, 181, 182], and vibrahonal energy redistribuhon [182]. Recent developments pertained to cluster electron dynamics [183], which involved electron-hole coherence of Wannier excitons and exciton wavepacket dynamics in semiconductor clusters and quantum dots [183], ultrafast electron-surface scattering in metallic clusters [184], and the dissipahon of plasmons into compression nuclear modes in metal clusters [185]. Another interesting facet of electron dynamics focused on nanoplasma formation and response in extremely highly ionized molecular clusters coupled to an... 

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