Introduction to Ultrafast Phenomena: From Femtosecond Magnetism to High-Harmonic Generation
暫譯: 超快現象導論：從飛秒磁性到高次諧波產生

這本書是同類型中的第一本，提供了對超快現象的全面介紹，涵蓋了超快自旋和電荷動力學、飛秒磁性、全光自旋開關以及高次諧波產生的基本原理。書中介紹了實驗工具，包括超快泵浦-探測實驗，以及理論方法，包括量子化學和密度泛函理論，涵蓋時間獨立和時間依賴的部分。作者用清晰的語言解釋了如何實驗性地產生超快激光脈衝，這些脈衝如何在分子、納米結構和固體（磁性材料和超導體）中誘導電子和自旋的快速反應，以及如何在阿秒時間尺度上從原子和固體中產生高次諧波。書中還展示了這一領域如何通過飛秒磁學、在鐵磁材料中的全光自旋開關及其他技術推動下一代磁性儲存設備的發展，磁性分子中的磁邏輯，以及超快強光源，並在整本書中融入了大量的計算機程式、範例和問題，以展示這些美麗的研究如何在幕後進行。

主要特點：
- 提供了對現代超快現象及其在物理、化學、材料科學和工程中的應用的清晰介紹。
- 詳細介紹了高次諧波在原子和固體中是如何產生的。
- 解釋了超快去磁化和自旋開關，這是開發更快磁性儲存設備的新前沿。
- 每章包含大量的實例和問題，並提供了在密度泛函理論和量子化學計算中的實際研究代碼，這些代碼在章節和附錄中都有提供。

本書適合本科生和研究生、物理、化學、生物、材料科學和工程領域的研究人員。

Guo-ping Zhang (G. P. Zhang) is a professor of physics at Indiana State University. Prior to that, he was visiting assistant professor of physics in State University of New York, Buffalo State College. He received his B.S. degree from Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, master's degree from Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, and Ph.D. degree from Fudan University, Shanghai, China. His doctoral supervisor was Professor Xin Sun. After receiving his Ph.D. degree, he took a scientific visiting scholar position at the Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany. He was a postdoctoral research associate in Wolfgang Hübner's group at the Max-Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany, and in Thomas A. Callcott's group at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Guo-ping's research interest is in nanoscience (nanoclusters, C₆₀, nanotubes, and photovoltaics in pentacene), conjugated polymers, nonlinear optics, ultrafast phenomena, femtosecond magnetism, laser-matter interaction, high-harmonic generation, strongly-correlated systems, soft x-ray spectroscopy, resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, density functional theory, first-principles calculations, density matrix renormalization groups, Liouville equation, numerical algorithms, and diamondoids. He has published 127 peer-reviewed research papers, 3 edited books, and 10 book chapters. Guo-ping was a recipient of the Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research and Creativity Award.

Georg Lefkidis is a tenured senior lecturer (Privatdozent) in the Department of Physics at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. He obtained his diploma degree in the Department of Chemistry at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, with a focus in theoretical quantum chemistry under the supervision of C. A. Tsipis; his Ph.D. in the same department with a focus on the border between theoretical quantum chemistry and solid-state physics under the supervision of G. Katsoulos; and his habilitation in theoretical physics in the Department of Physics at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern under the mentorship of W. Hübner. His scientific interest comprises, among others, the fundamental understanding and active manipulation of the magnetic properties of molecules and nanoclusters (notably with the goal to suggest and design nanospintronics elements), as well as their quantum thermodynamic features. He has co-authored 68 peer-reviewed scientific articles and contributed to one book. After three guest professorships in the School of Mechanics, Civil Engineering, and Architecture, at the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, he was awarded an Adjunct Research Fellowship at the same department, within the Thousand-Talents Program of China. Besides his scientific path, G. Lefkidis has also obtained a piano soloist degree and is an active musician with numerous piano, chamber music, and choir concerts in Greece, Germany, France, Canada, and the USA.

Mitsuko Murakami is a visiting professor of physics at Indiana State University. She received her B.S. degree in physics from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and both master's and Ph.D. degrees from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, specializing in computational atomic, molecular and optical physics. Her dissertation research was about high-harmonic generation of noble-gas atoms and its application to attophysics, under the supervision of Dr. Mette Gaarde. She held postdoctoral research positions in the group of Drs. Marko Horbatsch and Tom Kirchner at York University in Toronto, Canada, and in the group of Shi-I Chu at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan. She also worked in the group of Dr. Lei Wei in the field of bioinformatics at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, before accepting her current position in the group of Dr. Guo-ping Zhang at Indiana State University. Mitsuko has published over 20 peer-reviewed research papers and co-authored two book chapters. During the studies for her master's degree, she participated in the world-renowned experiment at Kamioka Liquid Scintillator Antineutrino Detector (KamLAND) in Japan to measure the three-flavor oscillation of antineutrinos. This work earned the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2016.

Wolfgang Hübner is a professor of theoretical physics at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (Department of Physics and Research Center OPTIMAS) since 2002. Before, he held appointments at the Max-Planck-Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle and the Freie Universität Berlin. He received his doctor's degree in Munich, his Habilitation in Berlin, and spent extended research stays and sabbaticals at ILL Grenoble, UC Berkeley, IPCMS Strasbourg, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz as a visiting professor, and Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. He is a recipient of the Karl-Scheel-Prize of the Berlin Physical Society. Wolfgang Hübner has coauthored 150 refereed publications in condensed matter theory. His research focuses on structure, spectroscopy, laser-induced femtosecond charge and spin dynamics, and functionalization of magnetic and nonmagnetic molecular nanostructures. A further scientific interest of his group is on quantum thermodynamics of small molecules and clusters.

Thomas F. George (chancellor/professor emeritus) served as chancellor and professor of chemistry and physics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis from 2003 until his retirement in 2019. Prior to that, he was chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, provost at Washington State University, dean of science at SUNY-Buffalo, and promoted by age 29 to full professor of chemistry at the University of Rochester. He received his B.A. degree (Phi Beta Kappa) with a double major in chemistry and mathematics from Gettysburg College, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at age 23 from Yale University, with postdoctoral appointments at MIT and UC-Berkeley. Tom's research specialty is chemical/materials/laser/nanophysics, including nanomedicine. He continues to be an active researcher with 800 papers, 8 authored and 20 edited books. His awards include the Marlow Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), Medal of Honor from Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait, and Diploma of Honour from Seinájoki University of Applied Sciences in Finland. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Szeged in Hungary and Phranakhon Rajabhat University in Thailand, and he has been elected as a foreign member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. As a hobby, he plays jazz keyboard and has performed throughout the St. Louis region and overseas in Bosnia, Croatia, China, Hungary, Kuwait, Oman, Romania and Russian Siberia. Tom has been married since 1970 to Dr. Barbara Harbach, Curators' Distinguished Professor Emerita of Music, former chair of the Department of Music, director of the School of Fine and Performing Arts, and director of Women in the Arts at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. They are the proud owners (actually, servants) of four cats - two tortoise females (Luna and Stella) and two younger, mischievous males (Jeremiah and Jarrett).

張國平（G. P. Zhang）是印第安納州立大學的物理學教授。在此之前，他曾擔任紐約州立大學水牛城分校的訪問助理教授。他在中國南京師範大學獲得學士學位，在上海交通大學獲得碩士學位，並在復旦大學獲得博士學位。其博士生導師為辛孫教授。獲得博士學位後，他在德國德累斯頓的馬克斯·普朗克複雜系統物理研究所擔任科學訪問學者。他曾在德國哈雷的馬克斯·普朗克微結構物理研究所的沃爾夫岡·休布納（Wolfgang Hübner）小組和美國田納西州諾克斯維爾的田納西大學的托馬斯·A·卡爾科特（Thomas A. Callcott）小組擔任博士後研究助理。張國平的研究興趣包括納米科學（納米簇、C₆₀、奈米管和五苯的光伏技術）、共軛聚合物、非線性光學、超快現象、飛秒磁性、激光-物質相互作用、高次諧波產生、強關聯系統、軟X射線光譜學、共振非彈性X射線散射、密度泛函理論、第一性原理計算、密度矩陣重正化群、李維爾方程、數值算法和鑽石分子。他已發表127篇同行評審的研究論文，編輯3本書籍和10章書籍。張國平曾獲得西奧多·德賴塞傑出研究與創造力獎。

喬治·萊夫基迪斯是凱瑟斯勞滕科技大學物理系的終身副教授（Privatdozent）。他在希臘塞薩洛尼基的亞里士多德大學化學系獲得文憑學位，專注於理論量子化學，導師為C. A. Tsipis；在同一系獲得博士學位，專注於理論量子化學與固態物理的交界，導師為G. Katsoulos；並在凱瑟斯勞滕科技大學物理系獲得理論物理的資格認證，導師為W. Hübner。他的科學興趣包括對分子和納米簇的磁性質的基本理解和主動操控（特別是為了建議和設計納米自旋電子元件），以及它們的量子熱力學特徵。他共同撰寫了68篇同行評審的科學文章並貢獻於一本書。在西安的西北工業大學機械、土木工程和建築學院擔任三次客座教授後，他在同一系獲得了中國千人計畫的兼職研究獎學金。除了科學事業外，萊夫基迪斯還獲得鋼琴獨奏學位，是一位活躍的音樂家，在希臘、德國、法國、加拿大和美國舉辦了多場鋼琴、室內樂和合唱音樂會。

村上光子是印第安納州立大學的訪問物理學教授。她在路易斯安那州的麥克尼斯州立大學獲得物理學學士學位，並在路易斯安那州立大學獲得碩士和博士學位，專攻計算原子、分子和光學物理。她的論文研究是關於貴氣體原子的高次諧波產生及其在阿托物理學中的應用，導師為Mette Gaarde博士。她曾在加拿大多倫多的約克大學的Marko Horbatsch和Tom Kirchner博士小組以及台灣台北的國立台灣大學的朱士毅博士小組擔任博士後研究職位。她還在紐約水牛城的羅斯威爾公園癌症研究所的雷偉博士小組從事生物信息學研究，然後接受了在印第安納州立大學張國平博士小組的目前職位。村上光子已發表超過20篇同行評審的研究論文並共同撰寫了兩章書籍。在攻讀碩士學位期間，她參加了日本神岡液體閃爍體反中微子探測器（KamLAND）的世界知名實驗，以測量反中微子的三味振盪。這項工作於2016年獲得基礎物理學突破獎。

沃爾夫岡·休布納自2002年以來是凱瑟斯勞滕科技大學的理論物理學教授（物理系及OPTIMAS研究中心）。在此之前，他曾在哈雷的馬克斯·普朗克微結構物理研究所和柏林自由大學任職。他在慕尼黑獲得博士學位，在柏林獲得資格認證，並在ILL格勒諾布爾、加州大學伯克利分校、斯特拉斯堡的IPCMS、格拉茨的卡爾·弗朗茨大學擔任訪問教授，並在馬丁·路德大學哈雷-維滕堡進行長期研究和休假。他是柏林物理學會的卡爾·謝爾獎的獲得者。沃爾夫岡·休布納在凝聚態理論方面共同撰寫了150篇經過審核的出版物。他的研究重點包括結構、光譜學、激光誘導的飛秒電荷和自旋動力學，以及磁性和非磁性分子納米結構的功能化。他小組的另一個科學興趣是小分子和簇的量子熱力學。

托馬斯·F·喬治（校長/名譽教授）自2003年至2019年退休期間擔任密蘇里州聖路易斯大學的校長及化學和物理學教授。在此之前，他曾擔任威斯康辛州史蒂文斯角大學的校長、華盛頓州立大學的教務長、紐約州立大學水牛城分校的科學院院長，並在29歲時晉升為羅徹斯特大學的化學全職教授。他在蓋茨堡學院獲得化學和數學雙主修的學士學位（Phi Beta Kappa），並在23歲時在耶魯大學獲得碩士和博士學位，之後在麻省理工學院和加州大學伯克利分校擔任博士後職位。托馬斯的研究專長是化學/材料/激光/納米物理學，包括納米醫學。他仍然是一位活躍的研究者，發表了800篇論文，著作8本書和編輯20本書。他的獎項包括英國皇家化學學會的馬洛獎、科威特海灣科技大學的榮譽獎章，以及芬蘭賽納約基應用科技大學的榮譽文憑。他擁有匈牙利塞格德大學和泰國帕納空拉查巴特大學的榮譽博士學位，並被選為韓國科學技術院的外籍成員。作為愛好，他演奏爵士鍵盤，並在聖路易斯地區及波斯尼亞、克羅埃西亞、中國、匈牙利、科威特、阿曼、羅馬尼亞和俄羅斯西伯利亞等地演出。托馬斯自1970年以來與音樂學名譽教授巴巴拉·哈巴赫（Dr. Barbara Harbach）結婚，她曾擔任音樂系主任、藝術與表演藝術學院院長及女性藝術主任。他們驕傲地擁有四隻貓——兩隻雜色母貓（露娜和斯特拉）和兩隻年輕的調皮公貓（耶利米和賈瑞特）。