Chapter 7 Electronic and structural response of materials to fast, intense laser pulses uri icon

abstract

  • This chapter focuses on several theoretical and experimental studies of the response of matter to light with an emphasis on semiconductors and fast-intense laser pulses. This method is called tight-binding electronion dynamics (TED), because it permits simulations of the coupled dynamics of valence electrons and ion cores in a molecule or material and it employs a tight-binding representation for the electronic states. It is applicable to general non-adiabatic processes including interactions with an intense radiation field. TED is a technique for simulating the coupled dynamics of valence electrons and ion cores in a molecule or material. One of the great strengths of TED is that the structural response is treated at the same time as the electronic response. TED is a promising approach for biological molecules and complex materials because it is inherently an O(N) method. The chapter presents the results for various interesting phenomena involving the response of H2+ to fast-intense laser pulses for the absorption and dichroism of chlorophyll and for a conformational change in butadiene.

published proceedings

  • Semiconductors and Semimetals

author list (cited authors)

  • Allen, R. E., Dumitric, T., & Torralva, B.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • Allen, Roland E||Dumitric, Traian||Torralva, Ben

publication date

  • January 2001