Main description:

This book is the first detailed and comprehensive guide to the theory of optical band shape of guest-molecule-doped crystals, polymers and glasses. Its main focus is on the dynamics of a single molecule, measured with the help of a train of photons emitted at random time moments.

Contents:

I. Single Atom in Transverse Electromagnetic Field.- 1. Quantum Principles of Two-Level Atomic Spectroscopy.- 2. Two-Photon Start-Stop Correlator.- 3. Full Two-Photon Correlator.- II. Phonons and Tunneling Excitations.- 4. Adiabatic Interaction.- 5. Natural Vibrations of Solids.- 6. Tunneling Systems in Solids.- III. Spectroscopy of a Single Impurity Center.- 7. Density Matrix for an Impurity Center.- 8. One- and Two-Photon Counting Methods in the Spectroscopy of a Single Impurity Center.- IV. Optical Band Shape Theory for Impurity Centers.- 9. Stochastic Theories of Line Broadening.- 10. Dynamical Theory of Electron-Phonon Bands.- 11. Vibronic Spectra of Complex Molecules.- 12. Dynamical Theory of Line Broadening.- V. Methods of Selective Spectroscopy.- 13. Fluorescence Line Narrowing.- 14. Spectral Hole Burning in Inhomogeneous Optical Bands.- VI. Transient Coherent Phenomena in Solids.- 15. Coherent Radiation of Molecular Ensembles.- 16. Photon Echo.- 17. Nonexponential Photon Echo.- VII. Low Temperature Spectral Diffusion in Polymers and Glasses.- 18. Theory of Electron-Tunnelon Optical Band.- 19. Chromophore Interacting with Phonons and TLSs Which Are not in Thermal Equilibrium.- 20. Dynamical Theory of Spectral Diffusion.- 21. Theory of Tunneling Transitions in TLSs.- 22. Investigating TLS Relaxation by Single-Molecule Spectroscopy.- Appendices.- B. Probability of Spontaneous Photon Emission.- C. Unitarity of Amplitudes.- D. Derivation of (3.8).- E. Derivation of (3.24).- F. Proof of the Approximation (7.16).- G. The Wick-Bloch-Dominicis Theorem for Bosons.- H. Influence of FC and HT Interactions on the Optical Band Shape Function.- I. Cumulant Expansion.- J. Relation Between Phonon Green Functions.- L. Derivation of (17.65).- M. The Wick-Bloch-Dominicis Theorem for Fermions.- N. Derivation of (18.37) and (18.38).- O. Derivation of (18.53).- P. Derivation of (18.60).- Q. Stochastic Approach to Spectral Diffusion.