Computational Techniques in Quantum Chemistry and Molecular Physics

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Ramsau, Germany, 4–21 September, 1974

Geerd H.F. Diercksen, B.T. Sutcliffe, A. Veillard (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

568 Seiten

2011 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-1817-3 (ISBN)

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This book contains the transcripts of the lectures presented at the NATO Advanced study Institute on "Computational Techniques in Quantum Chemistry and Molecular Physics", held at Ramsau, Germany, 4th - 21st Sept. 1974. Quantum theory was developed in the early decades of this century and was first applied to problems in chemistry and molecular physics as early as 1927. It soon emerged however, that it was impossible to con sider any but the simplest systems in any quantita tive detail because of the complexity of Schrodinger's equation which is the basic equation for chemical and molecular physics applications. This remained the si tuation until the development, after 1950, of elec tronic digital computers. It then became possible to attempt approximate solutions of Schrodinger's equa tion for fairly complicated systems, to yield results which were sufficiently accurate to make comparison with experiment meaningful. Starting in the early nineteen sixties in the United States at a few centres with access to good computers an enormous amount of work went into the development and implementation of schemes for approximate solu tions of Schrodinger's equation, particularly the de velopment of the Hartree-Fock self-consistent-field scheme. But it was soon found that the integrals needed for application of the methods to molecular problems are far from trivial to evaluate and cannot be easily approximated.

Fundamentals of Computational Quantum Chemistry.- Fundamentals of Computer Hard- and Software in Relation to Quantum Chemical Calculations.- The Logic of Self-Consistent-Field Procedures.- The Configuration Interaction Method.- Molecular Properties.- An Introduction to Molecular Integral Evaluation.- Correlated Wavefunctions.- Pair Functions and Diagrammatic Perturbation Theory.- Some Applications of Projection Operators.- Molecules in Astrophysics.

Reihe/Serie	NATO Science Series C ; 15
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 568 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Algorithmen
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
ISBN-10	94-010-1817-0 / 9401018170
ISBN-13	978-94-010-1817-3 / 9789401018173
Zustand	Neuware