Densityfunctional theory of atoms and molecules djvu. It is a theory of electronic structure formulated in terms of the electron density as the basic unknown function instead of the electron wave function. Yang and parr, densityfunctional theory of atoms and molecules, oxford university press, 1994. Researchers have long sought methods for understanding how bonds between the atoms in molecules function. Oxford university press, apr, 1989 science 352 pages. Densityfunctional theory of atoms and molecules by yang weitao. Yang, densityfunctional theory of atoms and molecules, oxford university press, new york, ny, usa, 1989. Interactions between electrons determine the structure and properties of matter from molecules to solids. It is not surprising, then, that the concept of atoms in molecules aim has been much discussed in the literature. Numerical methods for kohnsham density functional theory. Densityfunctional theory of atoms and molecules robert g.
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Status and challenges of density functional theory. Parr and yang worked together to bring density functional theory into the computationally practical regime, and they developed some of the more widely used exchangecorrelation energy functionals. Local conceptual density functional theory descriptors. Their accuracy heavily relies on the exchangecorrelation energy functional. Density functional theory dft is an incredible success story. Density functional theory of atoms and molecules oxford, 1989 600dpit338s. Schmidt, in density functional theory and its application to materials, edited by v.
Fundamental to chemistry is the understanding of molecules as combinations of atoms. An introduction to density functional theory in chemistry jorge m. Theoretical reactivity indices based on the conceptual density functional theory dft have become a powerful tool for the semiquantitative study of organic reactivity. The low computational cost, combined with useful but not yet chemical accuracy, has made dft a standard technique in most branches of chemistry and materials science. Readings computational quantum mechanics of molecular and. A variational method for density functional theory. Comparative assessment of a new nonempirical density.
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Yang, oxford university press, new york, oxford, 1989. Chemistry mainly involves small changes among atoms and molecular fragments, with reasonably wellunderstood molecular invariants, e. For a good overview, see the book density functional theory of atoms and molecules, r. Density functional theory dft is in principle an exact theory widely used to explore manyelectron systems, from single atoms and small molecules to crystalline solids and large biocomplexes.