Advances in chemical physics, Volume 161 - Rice, Stuart Alan 1932-; Dinner, Aaron Reuven (Wiley, 2016)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Contributors to Volume 161 ; Preface to the Series ; Chapter 1 Structural Analysis by X-ray Intensity Angular Cross Correlations ; I. Introduction ; II. Theory ; A. Scattering from a Disordered System of Reproducible Particles ; B. 2D Disordered Systems ; 1. Dilute Systems ; 2. Dense Systems ; C. 3D Disordered Systems ; D. Two- and Three-Point Angular CCFs and Their Fourier Decomposition ; 1. General Definitions ; 2. Analysis of Disordered Systems by Angular CCFs ; III. Applications ; A. Single-Particle Structure Recovery from FXS
1. 2D Structure Determination 2. 3D Structure Determination ; B. Correlations in Disordered and Partially Ordered Phases ; 1. Local Structure of Colloidal Systems ; 2. BO Order in Liquid Crystals ; 3. Structural Inhomogeneities in Semicrystalline Polymers ; 4. Short-Range and Medium-Range Order in Metallic Glasses ; 5. Emergent Rotational Symmetries and Domain Memory in Magnetic Multilayers ; IV. Conclusions and Outlook ; Acknowledgments ; References ; Chapter 2 Spin Relaxation in Phase Space ; I. Introduction
II. Density Matrix and Phase Space Formulations of Relaxation Phenomena in Spin Systems A. Density Matrix Formulation of Spin Relaxation and Resonance ; 1. General Equations ; 2. Collision Kernel in the Markovian Approximation ; 3. Time-dependent Hamiltonian ; 4. Method of Statistical Moments ; B. Quasiprobability Distribution Functions for Particles ; 1. The Wigner Distribution Function for Particles ; 2. Application to Transition-State Theory ; 3. Application to Quantum Brownian Motion ; C. Quasiprobability Distribution Functions for Spins ; 1. Spin Phase-Space Distribution Functions
2. Weyl Symbols of Some Spin Operators 3. Master Equation and Statistical Moment Equations for Spin Relaxation in Phase Space ; D. Equilibrium Phase Space Distribution Functions for Spins ; 1. Spins in a Uniform External Field ; 2. Uniaxial Nanomagnet in an External Field ; 3. Uniaxial Nanomagnet in a Transverse Field ; 4. Biaxial Anisotropy ; 5. Cubic Anisotropy ; 6. TST Reversal Time ; 7. Switching Field Curves ; 8. Discussion ; III. Master Equation in Phase Space for Axially Symmetric Systems ; A. Master Equation for a Uniaxial Nanomagnet Subjected to a dc Magnetic Field