New Developments on the Quantum Theory of Large Molecules and Polymers

New Developments on the Quantum Theory of Large Molecules and Polymers 

Before treating these band structure calculations in Section 3 it will be shown how methods mostly used in ID aperiodic soldis can also be applied for very large molecules like proteins or DNA stacks (Section 2). 

There is a number of density functional (DFT) calculations on ID polymers and their properties. Here again one has to restrict oneself to describing the most frequently used methods and presenting some of the applications (see Section 4). 

There has been an explosion-like development in the treatment of non-linear optical properties of ID polymers and clusters. In Section 5 besides referring to the latest book in this field,4 we have again restricted ourselves to the main methods applied and to some illustrative examples. 

In Section 6 soliton dynamics in ID polymers and stacks will be discussed together with the presentation of the basics of the necessary formalism. 

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