This book will fulfill the needs of time-domain spectroscopists who wish
to deepen their understanding of both the theoretical and experimental
features of this cutting-edge spectroscopy technique. Coherent
Multidimensional Spectroscopy (CMDS) is a state-of-the-art technique
with applications in a variety of subjects like chemistry, molecular
physics, biochemistry, biophysics, and material science. Due to dramatic
advancements of ultrafast laser technologies, diverse multidimensional
spectroscopic methods utilizing combinations of THz, IR, visible, UV,
and X-ray radiation sources have been developed and used to study real
time dynamics of small molecules in solutions, proteins and nucleic
acids in condensed phases and membranes, single and multiple excitons in
functional materials like semiconductors, quantum dots, and solar cells,
photo-excited states in light-harvesting complexes, ions in battery
electrolytes, electronic and conformational changes in charge or proton
transfer systems, and excess electrons and protons in water and
biological systems.