Advances in Quantum Chemistry

Advances in Quantum Chemistry presents surveys of current developments in this rapidly developing field that falls between the historically established areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology. With invited reviews written by leading international researchers, each presenting new results, it provides a single vehicle for following progress in this interdisciplinary area.

This Volume and Volume 40 will be thematic volumes based on the proceedings of the Fifth European Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics which was held April 13-18, 2000, in Uppsala, Sweden. We published the proceedings from a previous meeting in 1998. See Volumes 31 and 32.

Density Matrices and Phase-Space Functions
Jens Peder Dahl

Correlation Corrected Hartree-Fock and Density Functional Computations on Periodic Polymers
Janos Ladik, Ferenc Bogar, and Vick Van Doren

Effective Potential of a Single Excited State Along the Adiabatic Path
Á. Nagy

Gradient Corrections to the Kinetic-Energy Density Functional Stemming from a Regular Two-Component Relativistic Hamiltonian
P. Tz. Yotov, F. E. Zakhariev, Ya. I. Delchev, and J. Maruani

An Attempt to Release the Constrained Search Approach in the Density Functional Theory
Boris P. Zapol

Sturmian Expansions for Quantum Mechanical Many-Body Problems, and Hyperspherical Harmonics
Vincenzo Aquilanti and John Avery

The A+BC Reaction by the Hyperqantization Algorithm: the Symmetric Hyperspherical Parametrization for J > 0
Vincenzo Aquilanti, Simonetta Cavalli, Dario De Fazio, and Alessandro Volpi

Distributed Gaussian Basis Sets: Variationally Optimized S-Type Sets
V. N. Glushkov and Stephen Wilson

Similarities in the Rydberg Spectra of the Isovalent Radicals CH3 and SiH3
I. Martín, A. M. Velasco, and C. Lavín

Theoretical Study of Charge Transfer Mechanism in N4 + He Collisions at keV Energies
Y. S. Tergiman and M. C. Bacchus-Montabonnel

Intermediate Hamiltonian Fock-Space Coupled-Cluster Method
Arie Landau, Ephraim Eliav, and Uzi Kaldor

Full CI Solution of Perturbative Equations
Gian Luigi Bendazzoli and Stefano Evangelisti

On the Generalized Brillouin-Wigner Perturbation Theory and the Many-Body Problem
I. Hubac and Stephen Wilson

Multireference Brillouin-Wigner Methods for Many-Body Systems
I. Hubac, P. Mach, and Stephen Wilson

The Dirac Equation in the Algebraic Approximation VII: A Comparison of Molecular Finite Difference and Finite Basis Set Calculations Using Distributed Gaussian Basis Sets
Harry M. Quiney, V. N. Glushkov, and Stephen Wilson

Relativistic Multireference Møller-Plesset Perturbation Theory Calculations for the Term Energies and Transition Probabilities of Ions in the Nitrogen Isoelectronic Sequence
Marius Jonas Vilkas and Yasuyuki Ishikawa

Reduced Density-Matrix Treatment of Spin-Spin Interaction Terms in Many-Electron Systems
R. L. Pavlov, A. I. Kuleff, P. Tz. Yotov, and J. Maruani

A Method of Combined Treatment for the Evaluation of Core Excitation Energies in Molecules Involving Heavy Atoms: Application to CrF6, MoF6, and WF6
J. Maruani, A. Khoudir, A. Kuleff, M. Tronc, G. Giorgi, and C. Bonnelle

Spectroscopic Constants of Pb and Eka-lead Compounds: Comparison of Different Approaches
Wenjian Liu, ChristophVan Wüllen, Young Kyu Han, Yoon Jeong Choi, and Yoon Sup Lee

Floquet States and Operator Algebra
V. M. León, M. Martín, L. Sandoval, and A. Palma

Index

Researchers in quantum chemistry, applied mathematics, biology and physics; universities and industrial research and development groups working on biological molecules and new materials, such as semiconductor chips, polymers, and alloys.

John R. Sabin is Professor of Physics and Chemistry Emeritus at the University of Florida, and Adjungeret Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. He received the AB degree from Williams College in 1962 and the PhD from the University of New Hampshire in 1966. Thereafter he was a postdoctoral student at Uppsala University and at Northwestern University. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri for three years (1968-1971) and then came to the University of Florida where he has been since.

Sabin’s research interest is in the theoretical description of the interaction of fast charged baryon projectiles with atomic and molecular targets, both as neutrals and ions. In this work, he uses molecular quantum mechanics to describe such interactions. In particular, he is interested in the mechanism of absorption of the projectile’s mechanical energy by the target, where it is mostly converted to electronic energy, which is measured by the target’s mean excitation energy. He has written some 250 articles in this and related fields.

Sabin is editor of Advances in Quantum Chemistry and has been editor of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. He has edited some 90 volumes and proceedings.