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5 Table of Contents: “...Introduction -- Hopping Mechanism -- Polaron Mechanism -- Deformation Potential Theory -- Outlook...”

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15 Table of Contents: “... Surface Hopping Methods for Nonadiabatic Transitions in Condensed Phases -- Mechanistic Studies...”

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20 Table of Contents: “...Spectroscopic Detection of Hopping Induced Mixed Valence of Ti and Sc in GdSc1-xTixO3 for x Greater...”