Quantum Chemistry

A topic within Physical Chemistry, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Chemistry.

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Book2005

Quantum States of Atoms and Molecules

David M. Hanson, Erica Harvey, Robert Sweeney & Theresa Julia Zielinski

Builds spectroscopy, atomic structure and bonding by solving the Schrödinger equation for one system at a time — particle in a box, rigid rotor, harmonic oscillator — rather than presenting quantum results as facts to memorise.

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Chemistry · Physical Chemistry

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Lecture1998

Electronic Structure of Matter — Wave Functions and Density Functionals

Walter Kohn

Argues that a system's ground-state energy is a functional of its electron density alone, replacing the many-body wavefunction with a far cheaper quantity to compute.

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Chemistry · Physical Chemistry

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Reading on Quantum Chemistry

Quantum States of Atoms and Molecules

Electronic Structure of Matter — Wave Functions and Density Functionals

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