Title: The NonErgodic Nature of Internal Conversion
            
                Springer Theses
Description: This thesis investigates the transitions from one electronically excited state to another. Such processes - the fastest of events in chemistry - can be studied with femtosecond resolution, and Thomas S. Kuhlman approaches the question both with experimental and theoretical methods. His approach contributes to explain processes of high importance to all scientific fields concerned with the interaction between light and matter: the deactivation of the electronically excited states after excitation. Thomas S. Kuhlman concludes in this thesis that the electronic transition proceeds before the entire set of available degrees of freedom are active - 'It is as simple as that' !
Subjects: Laser photochemistry, Physical and theoretical Chemistry, Photodissociation, Internal conversion (Nuclear physics), SCIENCE, Chemistry, Physical & Theoretical, Chimie, Science des matériaux, Mass spectrometry, Physical organic chemistry, Spectrum analysis, Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Spectroscopy/Spectrometry