Andrew Leathers

Research Interests

My current work involves using a density matrix approach for treating molecular systems in a medium, undergoing dissipative dynamics.  Examples are photodesorption of molecules from metal surfaces and optical spectra of atoms in atomic clusters.  I am also interested in numerical methods for solving and propagating the solutions of the Liouville-von Neuman equation for the density matrix, including population relaxation and decoherence rates as given by dissipative potentials and also by Lindblad-type treatments.