Fundamental World of Quantum Chemistry: A Tribute to the Memory of Per-Olov L?din (Hardcover, 2003)

Volume I:- Per-Olov Lowdin, A Scientific and Personal Appreciation; H. Shull. The Swedish Doorman, Poem by W. Shull. The Kind and Personal Influence of Per-Olov Lowdin; J. Karle. P.-O. Lowdin and The Quantum Mechanics of Molecules; R.G. Woolley, B.T. Sutcliffe. Symmetry Breaking in the Independent Particle Model; J.L. Stuber, J. Paldus. The Hueckel-Hubbard Hamiltonian and Its Gel'fand Basis; F.A. Matsen. Different Orbitals for Different Spins, Lowdin's Idea; R. Pauncz. The Pauli Exclusive Principle, Spin-Statistics Connection, and Permutation Symmetry of Many-Particle Wave Functions; I.G. Kaplan. The Length and Breadth of Lowdin-Orthogonalizations; V. Srivastava. Correlation Between Position and Momentum. A Phase-Space View; J.P. Dahl. Harmonic Polynomials, Hyperspherical Harmonics, and Sturmians; J. Avery. Sturmian Orbitals in Quantum Chemistry: An Introduction; V. Aquilanti, A. Caligiana. Molecular Orbital Calculations with Numerically Optimized Orbital Bases; J.D. Talman, R. Yan. About Overlap and Chemical Reality; G. Del Re. Quantum Mechanics of Many-Electron Systems and the Theories of Chemical Bond; M.A.C. Nascimento, A.G.H. Barbosa. Brillouin-Wigner Expansions In Quantum Chemistry. A Robust Approach to the Quantum Many-Body Problem in Molecules; I. Hubac, S. Wilson. Partitioning Techniques In Coupled-Cluster Theory; S.R. Gwaltney, G.J.O. Beran, M. Head-Gordon. Density Matrix Theory - A Retrospective; R. McWeeny. Geometric Aspects of the Theory of Density Matrices and Densities; J.E. Harriman. Density Matrix Variational Theory: Strength of Weinhold-Wilson Inequalities; M. Nakata, M. Ehara, H. Nakatsuji. Density Matrices for Electrons with Strong Interactions; R. Erdahl. AnalyticalHartree-Fock Wave Functions for Atoms and Ions; A.J. Thakkar, T. Koga. The Origin of the Molecular Atomization Energy Explained with the HF and HF-CC Models; E. Clementi, G. Corongiu. Some Exact Energy Relationships; P. Politzer. Shell Effects in the Relaxation Energy of 1s-Core Ionization of Atoms from He through Xe; J. Maruani, A.I. Kuleff, Ya.I. Delchev, C. Bonnelle. Second Order Properties in Tensor Product Space by CI Techniques: Computation of Dispersion Constants; G.L. Bendazzoli. Index. Volume II:- Non Hermitian Quantum Mechanics: Formalism and Applications; E. Narevicius, N. Moiseyev. On The Geometric Phase Effect in Jahn-Teller Systems; A.J.C. Varandas. Recent Developments and Applications of the State-Specific Approach to Excited States and Their Dynamics; C.A. Nicolaides. Accurate Determination of Partial Rates from Multichannel Wave Function; R. Lefebvre, B. Stern. Green Function for Elastic Scattering from Open-Shell Many-Body Targets; O.E. Alon, L.S. Cederbaum. Understanding the Rates of Chemical Reactions; J.N. Murrell. Multichannel Quantum-Classical Diffusion Equations; M.V. Basilevsky, A.I. Voronin. Field Energy Density in Chemical Reaction Systems; A. Tachibana. Quantum Chemical Methods Applied to Solids; P. Fulde. Superconducting and Spin Gaps in dx2-y2-Wave High Tc Cuprates; L.J. Dunne, E.J. Brandas. Quantum Theory of Disordered Chains; J.J. Ladik. Molecular Orbital Theory of the Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensate: Natural Orbital Analysis of Strongly Correlated Ground and Excited States of An Atomic Condensate in A Double Well; W.P. Reinhardt, H. Perry. Model Studies of the Electrophilic Substitution of Methane with Various Electrophiles E (E=NO2+, F+, Cl+, Cl3+,