Many-body Approaches at Different Scales A Tribute to Norman H. March on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Angilella, G.G.N (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Amovilli, C. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Atoms.; Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

This book presents a collection of invited research and review contributions on recent advances in (mainly) theoretical condensed matter physics, theoretical chemistry, and theoretical physics. The volume celebrates the 90th birthday of N.H. March (Emeritus Professor, Oxford University, UK), a promi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I Condensed matter theory
• 1 Correlations in the superconducting properties of several material Classes
• 2 Viscous electron liquids in encapsulated grapheme
• 3 Computer simulations of the structure of nanoporous carbons and higher density phases of carbon
• 4 On Dirac points in the Harper model
• 5 Theory of Mott localization in silicone
• 6 Molecular ordering in covalent lattices
• 7 An ab initio evaluation of Mott properties
• 8 Wavefunctions for large electron numbers: the Exponential Wall problem
• 9 Electron tunneling excitation of a coupled two impurity system
• 10 Quantifying the effect of point and line defect densities on the melting temperature in the transition metals
• 11 Application of the plane-wave-based perturbation theory to the density modulation induced by a point charge in an electron gas
• 11.1 Introduction
• 12 An overview of concepts in liquid state physics
• 13 Structure of water in dilute ionic solutions
• 14 Atomic spectra calculations using a solvable model potential for fusion plasma engineering
• 15 Solar cell efficiency: the Shockley-Queisser limit revisited
• Part II Theoretical chemistry
• 16 Shannon entropy and correlation energy for electrons in atoms
• 17 On combinatoric identities for electron-pair wavefunctions
• 18 From molecules and clusters of atoms to solid state properties
• 19 Alchemical derivatives of atoms: a walk through the periodic table
• 20 Title to be announced
• 21 Orbital-free density functional theory: Pauli potential and density scaling
• 22 The role of the N-representability in one-particle functional theories
• 23 Title to be announced
• Part III Theoretical physics
• 24 Energy density functional theory in atomic and nuclear physics
• 25 Second order exchange energy of a d-dimensional electron fluid
• 26 Nonlocal quantum kinetic theory and the formation of correlations
• 27 Numerical evidence of Sinai-like diffusion of random-mass Dirac-Klein particles
• 28 Topological effects and critical phenomena in the three-dimensional (3D) Ising model
• 29 Do symmetry-breaking transitions in photosynthetic light harvesting complexes form a Kibble-Zurek Model (KZM) topological defect?
• 30 The universe as a quantum many-body system
• Author index
• Keyword index.