Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics: Volume 1: Basic Problems and Model Systems Volume 2: Advanced Problems and Complex Systems Granada, Spain (1997)(2/3 Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics)

This is one of two volumes which together comprise 40 papers coming from contributions to the third European Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics Workshop held in Granada, Spain (1997). These books cover a spectrum of scientific research work from quantum-mechanical many-body methods to important applications and computational developments, and from atoms and molecules to condensed matter. The first volume is subtitled "Basic Problems and Model Systems", and includes the following topics: density matrices and density functionals, electron correlation effects, relativistic formulations, valence theory, and nuclear motions. The second volume is subtitled "Advanced Problems and Complex Systems" and covers the following topics: response theory, condensed matter, reactive collisions and chemical reactions, and computational chemistry and physics.

Table of Contents:
Response Theory.- Duality in Two-Ways Interferometers: the Symmetric Quanton-Detecton System.- Atomic Resonances in External Fields.- Propagator Calculations for Large Molecules: Determination of Transition Eigenvalues with a Subspace Bisection Method in the Diagonal Algebraic Diagrammatic Construction Approximation.- Accurate Density-Functional Calculation of Core XPS Spectra: Simulating Chemisorption and Intermolecular Effects on Real Systems?.- SCF, CI and DFT Charge Transfers and XPS Chemical Shifts in Fluorinated Compounds.- Condensed Matter.- Diffusion Monte-Carlo Calculations of Quasi-Bound States of Rare Gas-Halogen Clusters: a Diabatic Approach.- Shell-like Features and Charge Localization in Protonated Helium Clusters: a Density Functional Study.- Bond Elongation and Charge Transfer in Diatomic Molecules Interacting with Metal Clusters: H2/Ni and O2/Pt Revisited.- Reactivity at Silicon Surfaces Si(100) 2×2 and Si(111) 7×7.- DFT Modeling of Stark-Tuning Effect: CO on Polarized Pd(100) as a Probe for Double-Layer Electrostatic Effects in Electrochemistry.- Reactive Collisions and Chemical Reactions.- Electro-Nuclear Quantum Mechanics Beyond the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation. Towards a Quantum Electronic Theory of Chemical Reaction Mechanisms.- MCSCF Study of Chemical Reactions in Solution within the Polarizable Continuum Model and VB Analysis of the Reaction Mechanism.- Modeling of the Reaction of Azathioprine with the Hydroxide Anion.- A Theoretical Study of the OH Radical Addition to the Xylenes.- Quantum Molecular Systems in Astrophysics: the Illustrative Example of Interstellar Nitriles and Silanitriles.- Computational Chemistry and Physics.- Discrete Variable Method for Non-Integrable Quantum Systems.- Systematic Truncation of a Distributed UniversalEven-Tempered Basis Set of Gaussian Functions: an Application to the Ground State of the BF Molecule.- N-O and P-O Bond Nature in Hypervalent Compounds: is Bader Analysis Basis-Set and Geometry Independent?.- Hydrogen Bond Between the ?-Hydroxycarboxyl, ?-Hydroxyester and ?-Hydroxyamide Groups: Ab Initio Gas-Phase and Solution Study of a Double Linkage via the Hydroxyl Group.- Theoretical Study of the Proton Affinities of Some Substituted Derivatives of Histamine and Homologous Compounds. Structure-Activity Relationships.