edited by Leonid Khriachtchev (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Low temperature is an extreme condition which has always attracted scientists. The reasons for this interest are both fundamental and practical. At such low (cryogenic) temperatures the thermal, electric, and magnetic properties of many substances undergo great change, and the behavior of matter is very different from that at room temperature. Many fundamental discoveries have been done at low temperatures. The development of thermodynamics has been essentially based on potentials of cryogenic technology. Tunneling reactions in chemistry are characterized by the low-temperature limit when the classical contribution is negligible. Many practical applications benefit from the lack of heat and have a deep physical basis. Interesting advantages of chemical synthesis at low temperatures has been demonstrated, etc. Undoubtedly many exciting and useful phenomena will be found at low temperatures in future.

It is impossible to describe all fields of low-temperature research in one book. A small part of the results and perspectives in this area is considered in Physics and Chemistry at Low Temperatures, which covers fundamental and practical aspects of the processes and experimental and theoretical methods used in the field. The chapters are written by leading scientists who have very strong experience in the selected topics and many practical recommendations can be found in this book.

Published by Pan Stanford Publishing and distributed exclusively by World Scientific in Asia Pacific, except for India and Japan.

Contents:

• Photoexcitation of Free Radicals and Molecular Ions Trapped in Rare-Gas Solids (M E Jacox)
• Metal Atom Reactions to Form Novel Small Molecules (L Andrews)
• Conformational Changes in Cryogenic Matrices (R Fausto et al.)
• Photodynamics at Low Temperatures, in Time Domain (V A Apkarian & M Pettersson)
• Matrix Isolation of H and D Atoms: Physics and Chemistry from 1.5 to 0.05 K (V V Khmelenko et al.)
• Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy in Solid Parahydrogen: A Primer (M E Fajardo)
• Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy in Helium Droplets (K Kuyanov-Prozument et al.)
• Cryogenic Solutions as a Tool to Characterize Red- and Blue-Shifting C-H X Hydrogen Bonding (W A Herrebout & B J van der Veken)
• Low-Temperature Infrared Spectroscopy of Surface Species (A A Tsyganenko)
• Photolysis and Radiolysis of Water Ice (R E Johnson)
• Cool Interstellar Physics and Chemistry (A G G M Tielens & L J Allamandola)
• High-Resolution Single-Molecule Spectroscopy in Condensed Matter (M Orrit & W E Moerner)
• Noble-Gas Chemistry (W Grochala et al.)
• Modeling Structures and Spectra of Trapped Species in Low-Temperature Matrices (A Nemukhin & B Grigorenko)
• Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules at Very Low Temperatures: Theoretical Studies (R B Gerber & J Sebek)

Readership: Advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level students in physics and chemistry; researchers in physics and chemistry, especially those with an interest in low-temperature research.

300pp (approx.)		Scheduled Summer 2010
978-981-4267-51-9		US$179