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This book is a journey through the wonders of physics, the special
thousandth volume of the renowned Lecture Notes in Physics book
series. From quantum physics to solar physics, this volume
showcases the beauty of physics in various fields. Written by
series editors and colleagues, these essays are accessible to
non-specialists and graduate-level students alike, making for an
intriguing read for anyone interested in learning about physics
beyond their own field of study. Explore the historical development
of the series with two insightful forewords. List of essays: A New
Era of Quantum Materials Mastery and Quantum Simulators In and Out
of Equilibrium Evaluation and Utility of Wilsonian Naturalness The
Geometric Phase: Consequences in Classical and Quantum Physics The
Coming Decades of Quantum Simulation Insights into Complex
Functions Exploring the Hottest Atmosphere with the Parker Solar
Probe A Primer on the Riemann Hypothesis
This concise book offers an essential introduction and reference
guide for the many newcomers to the field of physics of elemental
2D materials. Silicene and related materials are currently among
the most actively studied materials, especially following the first
experimental synthesis on substrates in 2012. Accordingly, this
primer introduces and reviews the most crucial developments
regarding silicene from both theoretical and experimental
perspectives. At the same time the reader is guided through the
extensive body of relevant foundational literature. The text starts
with a brief history of silicene, followed by a comparison of the
bonding nature in silicon versus carbon atoms. Here, a simple but
robust framework is established to help the reader follow the
concepts presented throughout the book. The book then presents the
atomic and electronic structure of free-standing silicene, followed
by an account of the experimental realization of silicene on
substrates. This topic is subsequently developed further to discuss
various reconstructions that silicene acquires due to interactions
with the substrate and how such effects are mirrored in the
electronic properties. Next the book examines the dumbbell
structure that is the key to understanding the growth mechanism and
atomic structure of multilayer silicene. Last but not least, it
addresses similar effects in other elemental 2D materials from
group IV (germanene, stanane), group V (phosphorene) and group III
(borophene), as well as transition metal dichalcogenides and other
compositions, so as to provide a general comparative overview of
their electronic properties.
There have been many significant advances in time-dependent
density functional theory over recent years, both in enlightening
the fundamental theoretical basis of the theory, as well as in
computational algorithms and applications. This book, as successor
to the highly successful volume Time-Dependent Density Functional
Theory (Lect. Notes Phys. 706, 2006) brings together for the first
time all recent developments in a systematic and coherent way.
First, a thorough pedagogical presentation of the fundamental
theory is given, clarifying aspects of the original proofs and
theorems, as well as presenting fresh developments that extend the
theory into new realms-such as alternative proofs of the original
Runge-Gross theorem, open quantum systems, and dispersion forces to
name but a few. Next, all of the basic concepts are introduced
sequentially and building in complexity, eventually reaching the
level of open problems of interest. Contemporary applications of
the theory are discussed, from real-time coupled-electron-ion
dynamics, to excited-state dynamics and molecular transport. Last
but not least, the authors introduce and review recent advances in
computational implementation, including massively parallel
architectures and graphical processing units. Special care has been
taken in editing this volume as a multi-author textbook, following
a coherent line of thought, and making all the relevant connections
between chapters and concepts consistent throughout. As such it
will prove to be the text of reference in this field, both for
beginners as well as expert researchers and lecturers teaching
advanced quantum mechanical methods to model complex physical
systems, from molecules to nanostructures, from biocomplexes to
surfaces, solids and liquids.
"From the reviews of LNP 706: "
"This is a well structured text, with a common set of notations
and a single comprehensive and up-to-date list of references,
rather than just a compilation of research articles. Because of its
clear organization, the book can be used by novices (basic
knowledge of ground-state DFT is assumed) and experienced users of
TD-DFT, as well as developers in the field." (Anna I. Krylov,
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 129 (21), 2007)
"This book is a treasure of knowledge and I highly recommend it.
Although it is a compilation of chapters written by many different
leading researchers involved in development and application of
TDDFT, the contributors have taken great care to make sure the book
is pedagogically sound and the chapters complement each other ...].
It is highly accessible to any graduate student of chemistry or
physics with a solid grounding in many-particle quantum mechanics,
wishing to understand both the fundamental theory as well as the
exponentially growing number of applications. ...] In any case, no
matter what your background is, it is a must-read and an excellent
reference to have on your shelf."
Amazon.com, October 15, 2008, David Tempel (Cambridge, MA)"
The year 2004 was a remarkable one for the growing ?eld of
time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). Not only did we
celebrate the 40th - niversary of the Hohenberg-Kohn paper, which
had laid the foundation for ground-state density functional theory
(DFT), but it was also the 20th - niversary of the work by Runge
and Gross, establishing a ?rm footing for the time-dependent
theory. Because the ?eld has grown to such prominence, and has
spread to so many areas of science (from materials to
biochemistry), we feel that a volume dedicated to TDDFT is most
timely. TDDFT is based on a set of ideas and theorems quite
distinct from those governingground-stateDFT, butemployingsimilar
techniques.Itisfarmore than just applying ground-state DFT to
time-dependent problems, as it - volves its own exact theorems and
new and di?erent density functionals. Presently,
themostpopularapplicationistheextractionofelectronicexcit- state
properties, especially transition frequencies. By applying TDDFT
after thegroundstateofamoleculehasbeenfound,
wecanexploreandunderstand the complexity of its spectrum, thus
providing much more information about the species. TDDFT has a
especially strong impact in the photochemistry of biological
molecules, where the molecules are too large to be handled by t-
ditional quantum chemical methods, and are too complex to be
understood with simple empirical frontier orbital theo
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