Abraham Nitzan (b Israel in 1944) has worked Tel Aviv University since 1975 and is now a Professor of Chemistry and Donner Professor of Physical Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is focused on chemical and photochemical processes and charge and energy transfer in condensed phases and interfaces. Among his main recognitions are the Israel Chemical Society Prize (2004) and Medal (2015), the Emet Prize, the APS Plyler Prize, the ACS Theoretical Chemistry Prize and the Israel Prize in Chemistry. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Israel Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Review from previous edition Beautifully and clearly written, describing mathematics in necessary detail without overloading the reader, and very neatly and consisely explaining physics of the described phenomena.

• PART I BACKGROUND 1: Review of some mathematical and physical subjects 2: Quantum dynamics using the time-dependent Schrödinger equation 3: An overview of quantum electrodynamics {} and matter--radiation field interaction 4: Introduction to solids 5: Introduction to liquids PART II METHODS 6: Time-correlation functions 7: Introduction to stochastic processes 8: Stochastic equations of motion 9: Introduction to quantum relaxation processes 10: The quantum mechanical density operator {and its} time evolution: Quantum dynamics using the quantum Liouville equation 11: Linear response theory 12: The spin--boson model PART III APPLICATIONS 13: Vibrational energy relaxation 14: Chemical reactions in condensed phases 15: Solvation dynamics 16: Electron transfer processes 17: Electron transfer and transmission at molecule--metal and molecule--semiconductor interfaces 18: Spectroscopy 19: Molecular spectroscopy at dielectric interfaces Index

Abraham Nitzan (b Israel in 1944) has worked Tel Aviv University since 1975 and is now a Professor of Chemistry and Donner Professor of Physical Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is focused on chemical and photochemical processes and charge and energy transfer in condensed phases and interfaces. Among his main recognitions are the Israel Chemical Society Prize (2004) and Medal (2015), the Emet Prize, the APS Plyler Prize, the ACS Theoretical Chemistry Prize and the Israel Prize in Chemistry. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Israel Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Review from previous edition Beautifully and clearly written, describing mathematics in necessary detail without overloading the reader, and very neatly and consisely explaining physics of the described phenomena.

• PART I BACKGROUND 1: Review of some mathematical and physical subjects 2: Quantum dynamics using the time-dependent Schrödinger equation 3: An overview of quantum electrodynamics {} and matter--radiation field interaction 4: Introduction to solids 5: Introduction to liquids PART II METHODS 6: Time-correlation functions 7: Introduction to stochastic processes 8: Stochastic equations of motion 9: Introduction to quantum relaxation processes 10: The quantum mechanical density operator {and its} time evolution: Quantum dynamics using the quantum Liouville equation 11: Linear response theory 12: The spin--boson model PART III APPLICATIONS 13: Vibrational energy relaxation 14: Chemical reactions in condensed phases 15: Solvation dynamics 16: Electron transfer processes 17: Electron transfer and transmission at molecule--metal and molecule--semiconductor interfaces 18: Spectroscopy 19: Molecular spectroscopy at dielectric interfaces Index