Elementary Processes in Excitations and Reactions on Solid Surfaces explores the fundamental nature of dynamics on solid surfaces. Attempts are made to reveal various aspects of elementary processes in excitations and reactions on solid surfaces by recent theoretical and experimental developments of the subjects such as molecular beams interacting with surfaces, ion beam scattering, laser-induced dynamical processes, electronically induced dynamical processes, and optical properties of solid surfaces. This volume is devided into three parts. Part I is concerned mainly with the rich reaction dynamics on potential-energy surfaces. Part II is devoted to the interplay of excitations. In Part III, new and rapidly developing methods are introduced.

I Reaction Dynamics and Potential Energy Surfaces.- Reaction Dynamics of H2Si: A 5-D Model.- Eley-Rideal Dynamics of the Reaction of Gas-Phase H(D) with D(H) on Cu(111).- Dipped Adcluster Model Study of Surface Reactions.- Ab Initio Study on Photo-Induced Desorption of CO and NO from Pt(111).- van der Waals Density Functional for Atoms and Surfaces.- Lifetime of the Intermediate Excited State in Laser-Induced Desorption of NO from Pt.- Electronic Excitations at Oxide Surfaces.- Site Occupation of Adsorbed CO on Ni(100).- II Beam-Surface Scattering and Charge and Energy Transfer.- The Interaction of O2 with Ag(111) Probed by Beam Experiments.- On the Molecular Orientation Dependence of Dynamical Processes on Solid Surfaces: Dissociative Adsorption and Scattering.- Dynamics and Energy Transfer in Scattering of Xe, O2 and Cl2 from Graphite Surface.- Collision-Induced Desorption of Xe Adsorbed on Pt(111) by Ar Atoms.- Spin-Polarized Atomic Beam as a Probe of Spin Correlation at the Topmost Layer of Surfaces.- The Effects of Electronic Excitations on the Behaviour of Particles Scattered by Metal Surfaces.- Do the Highly Correlated Kondo and Mixed-Valent States Influence Charge Transfer and Energy Transfer in the Motion of Atoms near Metallic Surfaces?.- Second Order Self-Energy and Interpolation Formula for the Charge Transfer Probability in Time-Dependent Models.- Surface Reactions Activated by High Electron Temperatures.- Density Functional Theory Study of Self-Diffusion on the (111) Surfaces of Ni, Pd, Pt, Cu, Ag and Au.- Surface Resistivity and Related Phenomena on Metal Surfaces.- III New Methods and Structures.- Use of Renormalized Radiation Green's Function in Microscopic Nonlocal Optical Response Theory: Applications to Surface Optical Problems.- Theory forNonlinear Magneto-Optics at Thin Films.- Size Dependent CO Dissociation on Rh Particles Supported on Thin Alumina Films.- Effects of Alloying with Ge on the Pt Electronic Structure and Molecular Adsorption.- Novel Structure Model for the Type C Defect on Si(001) Surface.- Adsorbed PF3 on Ru(001) - Quantum Gear Problem?.- Brief Summary.- Index of Contributors.