Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-273) and indexes.
Contents
Principles -- Matrices -- Atomic Orbitals -- Variation Method -- Spin -- Antisymmetry of Many-Electron Wavefunctions -- Self-consistent-field Calculations and Model Hamiltonians -- Post-Hartree-Fock Methods -- Valence Bond Theory and the Chemical Bond -- Elements of Rayleigh-Schroedinger Perturbation Theory -- Atomic and Molecular Interactions -- Symmetry.
Summary
This is an advanced text introducing graduate students to the mathematical foundations of methods needed to do working applications in molecular quantum mechanics.
