Thermal Processes Using Attosecond Laser Pulses [recurso electrónico] : When Time Matters / by Mirosław Kozłowski, Janina Marciak-Kozłowska.

Wave Phenomena: An Overview -- Causal Thermal Phenomena, Classical Description -- Causal Thermal Phenomena, Quantal Description -- Application of the Quantum Heat Transport Equation -- Causal Thermal Phenomena in a Planck Era -- Attophysics and Technology with Ultrashort Laser Pulses -- Faster, Brighter, Shorter -- Fundamental Physics with Attosecond Laser Pulses -- Epilogue: The Emergence of Quantum Dynamics in a Classical World.

This book contains a study of the thermal processes initiated by attosecond laser pulses. Considering the existence of the experimental evidence for the trains of the attosecond laser pulses, we developed the theoretical framework for attophysics, i.e. physics of phenomena with time duration in the attosecond domain. This time domain is concerned with phenomena whose duration is much shorter than the relaxation time for atomic, molecular and nanoparticles scales.