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1 online resource (114 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1: What Makes an Atom? -- 1.1. SUPERATOMS -- 1.2. THE SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION -- 1.2.1. The Many-Body Problem in Quantum Mechanics -- 1.2.2. Free Electrons in Three Dimensions -- 1.3. ATOMS -- 1.3.1. The Hydrogen Atom -- 1.3.2. The Helium Atom -- 1.3.3. Generalised Many-Electron Atoms -- 1.4. THE LIMITS OF THE PERIODIC TABLE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 2: Electronic Shell Structure -- 2.1. METAL CLUSTERS -- 2.2. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF MAGIC NUMBERS -- 2.3. THE EFFECTIVE POTENTIAL -- 2.3.1. Isotropic Potentials |
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2.3.2. Anharmonic and Aspherical Potentials -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 3: From the Jellium Model to Density Functional Theory -- 3.1. THE JELLIUM MODEL -- 3.2. NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS -- 3.2.1. The Variational Principle -- 3.3. THE PSEUDOPOTENTIAL MODEL -- 3.4. ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS FOR METAL CLUSTERS -- 3.4.1. The Influence of Lattice Structure -- 3.4.2. The Behaviour of Different Metals -- 3.5. DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY -- 3.5.1. The Hohenberg-Kohn Theorems -- 3.5.2. The Kohn-Sham Equations -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 4: From Density Functional Theory to Properties |
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4.1. ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF SUPERATOMS -- 4.1.1. The Density of States -- 4.1.2. Spherical Harmonic Projection -- 4.2. THE PHYSICS OF THE EXCHANGE-CORRELATION FUNCTIONAL -- 4.3. FAMILIES OF FUNCTIONALS -- 4.4. BEYOND THE INDEPENDENT PARTICLE APPROXIMATION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 5: Real Metal Clusters -- 5.1. MONOVALENT METALS -- 5.2. DIVALENT METALS -- 5.3. TRIVALENT METALS -- 5.3.1. Trivalent Metals with s2p1 Configurations -- 5.3.2. Trivalent Metals with s2d1 Configurations -- 5.4. TRANSITION METALS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 6: Non-metal Superatoms |
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6.1. SUPERHALOGENS -- 6.2. SUPERALKALIS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 7: Ligand Protected Metal Clusters -- 7.1. GOLD THIOLATE CLUSTERS -- 7.2. PHOSPHINE PROTECTED GOLD CLUSTERS -- 7.3. LIGAND PROTECTED ALUMINIUM AND GALLIUM CLUSTERS -- 7.3.1. The Role of the Ligand Shell -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 8: Beyond Simple Superatoms -- 8.1. TUNABLE SUPERATOMS -- 8.1.1. Magnetic Dopants -- 8.2. OPEN SHELL MAGNETIC SUPERATOMS -- 8.3. SUPERATOMIC MOLECULES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 9: Superatomic Assemblies -- 9.1. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF SUPERATOMIC ASSEMBLIES -- 9.2. THE BAND STRUCTURE OF SOLIDS |
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9.2.1. Crystal Structures -- 9.2.2. The Brillouin Zone -- 9.3. THE BAND STRUCTURE OF SUPERATOMIC ASSEMBLIES -- 9.4. ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF CLUSTER ASSEMBLIES -- 9.4.1. Boltzmann Theory: Application to Superatomic Solids -- 9.5. SUPERATOMIC CHARACTER IN THE SOLID STATE -- 9.6. SUMMARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index |
| Summary |
This book is designed to be an introduction to the field, covering the history of the concept and related theoretical models from cluster physics |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000848342 |
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1000848345 |
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