Surfaces, condensed matter theory

Condensed Matter Theory Crystals and Clusters, Surfaces and Interfaces... 

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This simple approach offers the possibility to gain fundamental insight into surface electron transfer processes from standard quantum chemical and condensed matter theory calculations, and comparisons with experiments on perylenes with different spacer groups indicate that this simple approximation often reproduces essential experimental features well, such as the influence of the chemical nature of the anchor and spacer groups involved. ... 

Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics is a broad area of science in which scientists of different extractions and aims jointly place special emphasis on quantum theory. Several topics were presented in the sessions of the symposia, namely 1 Density matrices and density functionals 2 Electron correlation effects (many-body methods and configuration interactions) 3 Relativistic formulations 4 Valence theory (chemical bonds and bond breaking) 5 Nuclear motion (vibronic effects and flexible molecules) 6 Response theory (properties and spectra atoms and molecules in strong electric and magnetic fields) 7 Condensed matter (crystals, clusters, surfaces and interfaces) 8 Reactive collisions and chemical reactions, and 9 Computational chemistry and physics. 

Also very broad and of great importance in physics and chemistry is the topic of response theory, where electric and magnetic fields interact with matter. The study of chemical reactions and collisions is the cornerstone of chemistry, where traditional concepts like potential-energy surfaces or transition complexes appear to become insufficient, and the new field of computational chemistry finds its main applications. Condensed matter is a field in which progressive studies are performed, from few-atom clusters to crystals, surfaces and materials. 

Kleyn A.W., in Elementary Processes in Excitations and Reactions on Solid Surfaces, A. Okiji, H. Kasai, K. Makoshi, eds, The eighteenth Taniguchi Symposium on the Theory of Condensed Matter, at Kashikoshima, Japan Springer Verslag, 1996, Vol. 121, 89. 

Sometimes simple models derived from continuum theory promise better results, but MD or Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations are still the preferable approaches for condensed-matter investigations [3,4], These methods were developed in the early 1950s [3, 4], They include a model-inherent dynamical description in the case of MD, and large samples can be accounted for. These methods allow working scientists to treat more than one molecule and make use of so-called periodic boundary conditions which mimic images around the central cell in such a way that problems due to surface effects can be overcome. 

Before we can take our electronic structure theory with our chosen exchange-correlation functional off to compute a sohd or a surface, there are several other issues to deal with and approximations to make. Good reviews exist on what it takes to perform a reliable condensed matter DFT simulation (e.g. Refs [50-52]), so we do not go into the details here instead, we merely point out some of the relevant issues necessary to appreciate the discussion that comes later. 

Abstract. An understanding of the microscopic melting of crystals has eluded researchers for more than a Century. The struggle has stimulated the development of quantum mechanics, concepts of long range order, the role of dimensionality in condensed matter, and more sensitive experimental techniques to test the theories. After years of probing the mechanism within the bulk material, we have discovered that the answer has been lying on the surface. 

The present state of the theories of atomic and molecular processes in condensed phases is characterized by great non-uniformity of its development. Matters are much problematic in the theory of the kinetics of processes at a molecular level. The kinetics of surface processes mainly employs models taking no account of the interaction of the adsorbed particles (the law of masses or surface action) [14-16]. This does not reflect the real properties of a gas solid interface. There is also a diversity of models when considering the interaction of the particles because various approximations are used (equilibrium is described with a view to the correlation effects, while kinetics ignores them). The problem of approximations is of a fundamental significance in the theory of condensed systems. Interaction between the particles causes all the particles to be bound to... 

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