Relaxations of Excited States and Photo-Induced Structural Phase Transitions: Proceedings of the 19th Taniguchi Symposium, Kashikojima, Japan, July 18–23, 1996

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Multistabilities of the Ground States, Proliferations of Excitons and Photo-Induced Structural Phase Transitions....Pages 3-16
The Instabilities of Excitons in Deformable Lattice and the Photo-Induced Phase Transition....Pages 17-24
Hierarchy of Formation of Nanometer Clusters and Periodic Defect-Deformational Structures in Solids Under the Action of Laser Beam....Pages 25-33
Photo-Induced Structure Changes of Quasi-one-dimensional Organic Crystals....Pages 34-44
Mean-Field Theory of Photo-Induced Structural Phase Transitions....Pages 45-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Spectroscopic Study of a 3d Peierls Insulator in BaBiO 3 ....Pages 55-62
Evidence of Polaronic Deformations in High T c Materials Observed by Photo-Induced IR Absorption and Photo-Induced XAS....Pages 63-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Relaxation Processes of Photo-Excited States in Wide-Gap MX Chain....Pages 75-82
Solitons, Polarons and Excitons in MX Chains....Pages 83-91
Lattice Relaxations Yielding Nonlinear Excitations in Photo-Excited MX Chains....Pages 92-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Domain-Wall Dynamics of Photo-Induced Phase Transition in Polydiacetylene Single Crystals....Pages 105-112
Dynamics of Excitons in Polymer Solids....Pages 113-120
Lattice Relaxation of Photo-Excited States in Conjugated Polymers....Pages 121-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Structural Properties, Dynamics and Pressure Effects at the Neutral-to-Ionic Transition....Pages 133-141
Neutral-to-Ionic Transformation as Condensation and Solidification of Charge-Transfer Excitations....Pages 142-150
Optical and Related Properties of Organic Charge-Transfer Crystals: An Overview of Experimental Results....Pages 151-159
Theory of the Neutral-to-Ionic Transition of Quasi-one-dimensional Charge-Transfer Compounds....Pages 160-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Exciton Strings and Exciton Mediated Carrier Transport in a Quasi-one-dimensional Organic Charge-Transfer Crystal....Pages 171-180
Photophysics of Charge-Transfer Solids and π-Conjugated Polymers....Pages 181-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Femtosecond Time-Resolved Studies of Dynamics of Structural Changes Induced by Electronic Excitation in Alkali Halide Crystals....Pages 193-202
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Theoretical Studies of the Models of Self-Trapped Excitons and Holes in Ionic Crystals....Pages 203-211
Photo-Induced Structural Changes in Amorphous Semiconductors....Pages 212-219
 ab initio Electronic Structure Calculation of Atomic Displacement of Defects in Semiconductors Induced by Electronic Excitation....Pages 220-228
Symmetry-Breaking Electronic-Atomic Processes in s-p Bonding Materials....Pages 229-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Lattice Relaxations Theory of Localized Excitations and Applications to Fullerenes....Pages 239-247
Exciton Relaxation and Electron Pairing in Fullerene....Pages 248-255
Photochemical Transformations and Polymerization in Solid C 60 ....Pages 256-266
Ultrafast Relaxation of Excitons and Photopolymerization Process in Fullerenes....Pages 267-275
Back Matter....Pages 277-280