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Theoretical Alchemy: Modeling Matter - Couverture souple

Harrison, Walter

 
9789814322140: Theoretical Alchemy: Modeling Matter
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9814322148 ISBN 13 : 9789814322140
Editeur : Wspc, 2010

Synopsis

The best way to understand chemical bonding may be to take a view appropriate to each individual system, a view which may be quite different for various systems. Sometimes two very different views are appropriate for the same system, and then the combination may even give the parameters needed to estimate the bonding energy by hand. Density Functional Theory, on the other hand, generally tries to take one view as applicable to all systems, and proceeds computationally.In contrast to the author's two previous well-known textbooks, Electronic Structure and the Properties of Solids (1989) and Elementary Electronic Structure (1999), in this book he tries to distill the essence of the representation of electronic structure in a much briefer description. It is shortened by focusing primarily on the bonding energies, the energy gained in assembling atoms as a molecule or a solid, or as a solid with a surface. A central point is that the same description of the electronic structure which gives this cohesion, can also be used to understand all of the other properties, though those other properties are not emphasized here. The effort is characterized by the title, which combines the modern word "theory" with the ancient effort of "alchemy" to make sense of the material world.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The best way to understand chemical bonding may be to take a view appropriate to each individual system, a view which may be quite different for various systems. Sometimes two very different views are appropriate for the same system, and then the combination may even give the parameters needed to estimate the bonding energy by hand. Density Functional Theory, on the other hand, generally tries to take one view as applicable to all systems, and proceeds computationally. In contrast to the author's two previous well-known textbooks, Electronic Structure and the Properties of Solids (1989) and Elementary Electronic Structure (1999), in this book he tries to distill the essence of the representation of electronic structure in a much briefer description. It is shortened by focusing primarily on the bonding energies, the energy gained in assembling atoms as a molecule or a solid, or as a solid with a surface. A central point is that the same description of the electronic structure which gives this cohesion, can also be used to understand all of the other properties, though those other properties are not emphasized here. The effort is characterized by the title, which combines the modern word “theory” with the ancient effort of “alchemy” to make sense of the material world.

Biographie de l'auteur

Walter A Harrison is a Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He received a Bachelor of Engineering Physics degree at Cornell University in 1953, and a PhD degree in 1956 under Frederick Seitz at the University of Illinois. After nine years as a physicist in the General Electric Research Laboratory he moved to Stanford in 1965. He is the author of three widely used texts and some 200 technical papers. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in 1970-71. He received a Senior Scientist von Humboldt Award for 1982, and carried out research in the Max-Planck-Institut f� ¼r Festk� ¶rperforschung in Stuttgart. Professor Harrison is a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

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Éditeur
Wspc
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9814322148
ISBN 13 
9789814322140
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
210
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