Contributors .................................................. vii
Preface ........................................................ xi
Introduction to Electron Paramagnetic Resonance ................. 1
Marina Brustolon and Sabine Van Doorslaer
Challenge of Optical Spectroscopies ............................ 11
Ermelinda M.S. Maçôas
Quest for Accurate Models: Some Challenges From Gas-Phase
Experiments on Medium-Size Molecules and Clusters .............. 25
Maurizio Becucci and Giangaetano Pietraperzia
PART I ELECTRONIC AND SPIN STATES
1 UV-Visible Absorption and Emission Energies in Condensed
Phase by PCM/TD-DFT Methods ................................. 39
Roberto Improta
2 Response Function Theory Computational Approaches to
Linear and Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy ................... 77
Antonio Rizzo, Sonia Coriani, and Kenneth Ruud
3 Computational X-Ray Spectroscopy ........................... 137
Vincenzo Carravetta and Hans Ågren
4 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Singlet and Doublet
Electronic States .......................................... 207
Alfonso Pedone and Orlando Crescenzi
5 Application of Computational Spectroscopy to Silicon
Nanocrystals: Tight-Binding Approach ....................... 249
Fabio Trani
PART IIA EFFECTS RELATED TO NUCLEAR MOTIONS: TIME-
INDEPENDENT MODELS
6 Computational Approach to Rotational Spectroscopy .......... 263
Cristina Puzzarini
7 Time-Independent Approach to Vibrational Spectroscopies .... 309
Chiara Cappelli and Malgorzata Biczysko
8 Time-Independent Approaches to Simulate Electronic
Spectra Lineshapes: From Small Molecules to Macrosystems ... 361
Malgorzata Biczysko, Julien Bloino, Fabrizio Santoro, and
Vincenzo Barone
PART IIB EFFECTS RELATED TO NUCLEAR MOTIONS: TIME-DEPENDENT
MODELS
9 Efficient Methods for Computation of Ultrafast Time- and
Frequency-Resolved Spectroscopic Signals ................... 447
Maxim F. Gelin, Wolfgang Domcke, and Dassia Egorova
10 Time-Dependent Approaches to Calculation of Steady-State
Vibronic Spectra: From Fully Quantum to Classical
Approaches ................................................. 475
Alessandro Lami and Fabrizio Santoro
11 Computational Spectroscopy by Classical Time-Dependent
Approaches ................................................. 517
Giuseppe Brancato and Nadia Rega
12 Stochastic Methods for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopies ... 549
Antonino Polimeno, Vincenzo Barone, and Jack H. Freed
INDEX ......................................................... 583
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