Group Theory Applied to Chemistry

Arnout Jozef Ceulemans (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

348 Seiten

2024 | 2nd ed. 2024
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-024-2244-3 (ISBN)

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The second edition of this textbook provides a more elaborate explanation of several important group-theoretical concepts in quantum chemistry, such as: the bra-ket conjugation relation, the connection between point groups and isometries, the practical use of subduction tables, the eigenvalues of Cayley graphs, and the symmetry of Slater determinants. A new chapter introduces the application of line and plane groups to the properties of nanostructured low-dimensional molecular systems. In addition, several extra study problems are inserted to illustrate group theory at work in molecular science. The book is of great interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, enabling them to put the tools of group theory into practice when studying chemical problems of their own research. More experienced researchers will find in this book useful leads to the mathematical aspects of their subject.

Arnout Ceulemans is emeritus professor of theoretical chemistry at KULeuven. His research is devoted to the development and application of group theory and topology to chemistry. He has published three books on this topic. In 2013 appeared the first edition of a textbook on group theory applied to chemistry (Springer, 2013). Together with Dr. Pieter Thyssen he authored a book on continuous symmetry groups, entitled 'Shattered Symmetry, group theory from the eightfold way to the periodic table' (2017). His latest contribution is a monograph on the 'Theory of the Jahn-Teller effect, when a boson meets a fermion' (Springer 2022).

Operations.- Function Spaces and Matrices.- Groups.- Representations.- What has Quantum Chemistry Got to Do with It?.- Interactions.- Spherical Symmetry and Spins.- Line Groups and Plane Groups.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling
Zusatzinfo	18 Illustrations, color; 75 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 348 p. 93 illus., 18 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Anorganische Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
Schlagworte	Canonical Symmetry • Euclid Cubes • Functional Transforms • group theory • Jahn-Teller Effect • Molecular Orbital • Point groups • Rotation Matrices • symmetry • The Faraday Effect • Walsh Diagram • Wigner-Eckart theorem
ISBN-10	94-024-2244-7 / 9402422447
ISBN-13	978-94-024-2244-3 / 9789402422443
Zustand	Neuware