PHOTOINDUCED PHASE TRANSITIONS

By THOMAS TAYLOR

CONTENTS CHAPTER THEORIES FOR PHOTOINDUCED STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITIONS AND THEIR DYNAMICS CHAPTER TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY OF THE DYNAMICS OF PHOTOINDUCED IONIC-TO-NEUTRAL PHASE TRANSITION IN TETRATHIAFULVALEN-P-CHLORANIL CRYSTALS STUDY ON THE COOPERATIVE PHOTOINDUCED LOW-SPIN TO HIGH-SPIN STATE CONVERSION PROCESSES FEMTOSECOND DYNAMICS OF THE PHOTO-INDUCED LATTICE REARRANGEMENTS IN QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL HALOGEN-BRIDGED PLATINUM COMPLEXES MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS ON ISING-LIKE MODELS FOR PHOTOINDUCED PHASE TRANSITIONS PHOTOINDUCED PHASE TRANSITIONS IN ONE-DIMENSIONAL CORRELATED ELECTRON SYSTEMS PROBING PHOTOINDUCED STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITIONS BY FAST OR ULTRA-FAST TIME-RESOLVED X-RAY DI?RACTION