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Computer simulation of quantum systems in solution are allowing the direct observation of electronic dynamics of solutes at a molecular level on the same timescale as that probed by ultrafast transient spectroscopy. Here, we describe some of our recent theoretical approaches to the analysis of electronic spectroscopy and relaxation dynamics in solution, and outline some of the recent results obtained for the experimentally probed cases of energetic excess electrons in liquid water and for an aqueous halide ion.
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Rossky, P.J., Murphrey, T.H., Sheu, WS. (1994). Simulation of Electronic Spectroscopy and Relaxation in Aqueous Solution. In: Jortner, J., Levine, R.D., Pullman, B. (eds) Reaction Dynamics in Clusters and Condensed Phases. The Jerusalem Symposia on Quantum Chemistry and Biochemistry, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0786-0_20
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