Quantum Dynamics of Polyatomic Molecules

Abstract

The advent of high-powered tunable lasers has led to very considerable interest in the description of dynamical processes in large molecular systems. Until very recently chemical dynamics was confined to few-atom systems. It is now state-of-art for small polyatomics (e.g. for triatomic and tetraatomic systems) and typically provide results far superior in precision and experimental relevance using classical molecular dynamics. Efforts are currently being made by a wide variety of approaches to treat the dynamics of process in polyatomic molecules. None of the phenomena discovered so far in the general area of laser chemistry and quantum electronics is as exciting as the Multiphoton excitation and dissociation of polyatomic molecules.1,2