Extracting signatures of quantum chaos from the time resolved fluorescence of isolated molecules

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 4893-4905

  Wilkie, Joshua ^a,b,c   Brumer, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FLUORESCENCE; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

QUANTUM CHAOS; RADIATIVE DAMPING FACTORS;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0031256451     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.474852     Document Type: Article

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