Richard M. Martin,1969年在美國芝加哥大學(xué)物理系取得博士學(xué)位。先后在貝爾實驗室、Xerox Palo Alto研究中心與斯坦福大學(xué)從事科學(xué)研究工作。1988年加入到伊利諾伊大學(xué)厄巴納-香檳分校,現(xiàn)任該校物理系教授,美國物理學(xué)會高級會員,美國科學(xué)促進會會員。發(fā)展了新的計算方法并在復(fù)雜材料的電子結(jié)構(gòu)等領(lǐng)域做出了杰出貢獻(xiàn)。
圖書目錄
Preface
Acknowledgments
Notation
Part I Overview and background topics
1 Introduction
2 Overview
3 Theoretical background
4 Periodic solids and electron bands
5 Uniform electron gas and simple metals
Part II Density functional theory
6 Density functional theory: foundations
7 The Kohn-Sham ansatz
8 Functionals for exchange and correlation
9 Solving Kohn-Sham equations
Part III Important preliminaries on atoms
10 Electronic structure of atoms
11 Pseudopotentials
Part IV Determination of electronic structure:the three basic methods
12 Plane waves and grids:basics
13 Plane waves and grids:full calculations
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Part IV Determination of electronic structure:the three basic methods
Part V Predicting properties of matter from electronic structure-recent cevelopments
Appendix
References
Index