A remarkable feature of quantum many-body systems is the orthogonality catastrophe that
describes their extensively growing sensitivity to local perturbations and plays an important …

Photochemical surface processes are initiated by the absorption of photons by an adsorbate
or the substrate, and followed by various energy transfer and relaxation processes that lead …

Excitation of a localized oscillator or phonon due to transient charge transfer into and out of
electronic states linearly coupled to the oscillator is considered within several different …

Sideband cooling is a popular method for cooling atoms to the ground state of an optical
trap. Applying the same method to molecules requires a number of challenges to be …

Inelastic electron scattering from gaseous and physisorbed diatomic molecules results in
greatly enhanced vibrational overtone excitation if the incident electron has the appropriate …

Algebraic Methods in Quantum Chemistry and Physics provides straightforward
presentations of selected topics in theoretical chemistry and physics, including Lie algebras …

The consequences of charge transfer processes occurring when a molecular beam of
diatomic molecules is directed upon a solid surface are here considered. In analogy with …

We derive by a systematic mathematical way explicit recursion formulas to compute one-and
two-dimensional Franck-Condon factors required in molecular models where the following …

Electron energy loss spectra of O2 and N2 physisorbed on metallic substrates showing a
series of high overtone losses have recently been reported. In the case of N 2'the intense …

The problem of vibrational excitation of a diatomic molecule scattering from a metal surface
is considered for encounters in which the molecular electron affinity level crosses the …