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FACULTY - Diestler

Dr. Dennis Diestler Dr. Diestler's Web Page email: Dr. Diestler NCMN Homepage

 

Current Research

Diestler's research program consists of theoretical and computational studies on: (1) multiple-scale processes in heterogeneous solid systems; (2) stability of multivalent ligand-receptor complexes; (3) harmonic generation; (4) dynamical coupling of electronic and nuclear motions in molecules.

Recent Publications

A. D. Bandrauk, S. Chelkowski, D. J. Diestler, J. Manz, and K.-J. Yuan, "Quantum simulation of high-order harmonic spectra of the hydrogen atom," Physical Review A 79, 023403 (2009).

A. D. Bandrauk, S. Chelkowski, D. J. Diestler, J. Manz, and K.-J. Yuan, "Quantum-mechanical models for photoionization: Uni-directional electron re-scattering by a laser pulse," International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 277, 189 (2008).

D. J. Diestler and E. W. Knapp, "Statistical thermodynamics of the stability of multivalent ligand-receptor complexes," Physical Review Letters 100, 178101 (2008).

D. J. Diestler, "Harmonic generation: Quantum-electrodynamical theory of the harmonic photon-number spectrum," Physical Review A 78, 033814 (2008).

D. J. Diestler, H. Zhou, R. Feng, and X. C. Zeng, "Hybrid atomistic-coarse-grained treatment of multiscale processes in heterogeneous materials: A self-consistent-field approach," Journal of Chemical Physics 125, 064705 (2006).

D. J. Diestler, "Coarse-grained descriptions of multiple scale processes in solids," Physical Review B 66, 1841104 (2002).