Description
Book SynopsisThis text gives a general introduction to the propagator concept, how it can be used to study atomic and molecular properties and spectra, and provides examples and technical details of its use in various common approximate treatments as well as some illustrative applications.
Table of Contents1. Introduction.
2. Differential Equations.
3. Propagators and Second Quantization.
4. Double-Time Green's Functions.
5. The Excitation Propagator.
6. Interaction of Radiation and Matter.
7. Temperature Dependent Perturbation Theory.
8. Molecules in Magnetic Fields.
9. Electron Propagator in Higher Order Treatments.
10. Atomic and Molecular Orbitals.
11. The Pariser-Parr-Pople Model.
12. The Excitation Propagator in Higher Orders.
13. Propagators and Chemical Reaction Rate.
Appendix A: Complex Calculus Primer.
Appendxi B: First and Second Quantization.
Appendix C: Stability of Hartree-Fock Solutions.
Appendix D: Third-Order Self-Energy.
Appendix E: Temperatures-Dependent Propagators.
Appendix F: The Eckart Potential and its Propagator.
Index.
