Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

555 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The year 2004 was a remarkable one for the growing ?eld of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). Not only did we celebrate the 40th - niversary of the Hohenberg-Kohn paper, which had laid the foundation for ground-state density functional theory (DFT), but it was also the 20th - niversary of the work by Runge and Gross, establishing a ?rm footing for the time-dependent theory. Because the ?eld has grown to such prominence, and has spread to so many areas of science (from materials to biochemistry), we feel that a volume dedicated to TDDFT is most timely. TDDFT is based on a set of ideas and theorems quite distinct from those governingground-stateDFT,butemployingsimilar techniques.Itisfarmore than just applying ground-state DFT to time-dependent problems, as it - volves its own exact theorems and new and di?erent density functionals. Presently,themostpopularapplicationistheextractionofelectronicexcit- state properties, especially transition frequencies. By applying TDDFT after thegroundstateofamoleculehasbeenfound,wecanexploreandunderstand the complexity of its spectrum, thus providing much more information about the species. TDDFT has a especially strong impact in the photochemistry of biological molecules, where the molecules are too large to be handled by t- ditional quantum chemical methods, and are too complex to be understood with simple empirical frontier orbital theory.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics
• ISBN: 9783642071287
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.11.2010
• Genre: Physik, Astronomie/Theoretische Physik
• Verlag: Springer Berlin
• Herausgegeben von: Miguel A.L. Marques, Carsten A. Ullrich, Fernando Nogueira, Angel Rubio, Kieron Burke, Eberhard K. U. Gross