Electronic Density Functional Theory: Recent Progress and by John F. Dobson, Giovanni Vignale, Mukunda P. Das

By John F. Dobson, Giovanni Vignale, Mukunda P. Das

This e-book is an final result of the overseas Workshop on digital Density useful idea, held at Griffith collage in Brisbane, Australia, in July 1996. Density sensible thought, status because it does on the boundary among the disciplines of physics, chemistry, and fabrics technological know-how, is a smart mixer. Invited specialists from North the US, Europe, and Australia mingled with scholars from a number of disciplines, speedily taking over the casual kind for which Australia is legendary. an inventory of contributors is given on the finish of the e-book. Density useful concept (DFT) is a refined method of the very tricky challenge of predicting the habit of many interacting debris. an important program is the learn of many-electron structures. This was once the workshop subject, embracing inter alia computational chemistry and condensed subject physics. DFT circumvents the extra conceptually easy (but extra computationally extensive) procedure during which one solves the many-body Schrodinger equation. It is predicated as a substitute on fairly gentle concerns concerning the electron quantity density. for a few years the pioneering paintings of Kohn and Sham (the neighborhood Density Ap­ proximation of 1965 and speedy extensions) represented the state-of-the-art in DFT. This procedure was once conventional for its beautiful simplicity and computability, yet gave relatively modest accuracy. within the previous couple of years there was a renaissance of curiosity, rather principally end result of the outstanding luck of the recent iteration of gradient functionals whose initiators contain invitees to the workshop (Perdew, Parr, Yang).