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Many-body Approaches at Different Scales

A Tribute to Norman H. March on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday

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  1. G.G.N Angilella

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy

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  2. C. Amovilli

    1. Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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  • Addresses recent advances in theoretical condensed matter physics, theoretical chemistry, and theoretical physics
  • Features contributions from leading authorities in their fields
  • Suggests that many-body effects naturally emerge as a consequence of correlation in physical systems with quite diverse scales and dimensionality

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Condensed Matter Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Correlations in the Superconducting Properties of Several Material Classes

      • G. G. N. Angilella, R. Pucci
      Pages 3-9

    3. All-Electrical Scheme for Hall Viscosity Measurement

      • F. M. D. Pellegrino, I. Torre, M. Polini
      Pages 11-19

    4. Computer Simulations of the Structure of Nanoporous Carbons and Higher Density Phases of Carbon

      • Lydia Alonso, Julio A. Alonso, María J. López
      Pages 21-34

    5. Graphene-Like Massless Dirac Fermions in Harper Systems

      • F. Claro, P. Robles
      Pages 35-41

    6. Silicene and Germanene as Prospective Playgrounds for Room Temperature Superconductivity

      • G. Baskaran
      Pages 43-57

    7. Molecular Ordering in Covalent Solids: A Simple Lattice Model

      • F. Siringo
      Pages 59-73

    8. An Ab Initio Evaluation of Mott Properties?

      • A. Cabo Montes de Oca
      Pages 75-98

    9. Wavefunctions for Large Electronic Systems

      • P. Fulde
      Pages 99-105

    10. Electron Tunneling Excitation of a Coupled Two Impurity System

      • F. Flores, E. C. Goldberg
      Pages 107-123

    11. Quantifying the Effect of Point and Line Defect Densities on the melting Temperature in the Transition Metals

      • C. C. Matthai
      Pages 125-131

    12. Application of the Plane-Wave-Based Perturbation Theory to the Density Modulation Induced by a Point Charge in an Electron Gas

      • I. Nagy, M. L. Glasser
      Pages 133-138

    13. Kovacs Effect and the Relation Between Glasses and Supercooled Liquids

      • F. Aliotta, R. C. Ponterio, F. Saija, P. V. Giaquinta
      Pages 139-152

    14. Structural Properties of Ionic Aqueous Solutions

      • P. Gallo, M. Martin Conde, D. Corradini, P. Pugliese, M. Rovere
      Pages 153-162

    15. Atomic Spectra Calculations for Fusion Plasma Engineering Using a Solvable Model Potential

      • M. E. Charro, L. M. Nieto
      Pages 163-176

    16. Exceeding the Shockley–Queisser Limit Within the Detailed Balance Framework

      • M. Bercx, R. Saniz, B. Partoens, D. Lamoen
      Pages 177-184

  3. Theoretical Chemistry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Shannon Entropy and Correlation Energy for Electrons in Atoms

      • C. Amovilli, F. M. Floris
      Pages 187-198

    3. Kinetic Energy Density Functionals from Models for the One-Electron Reduced Density Matrix

      • D. Chakraborty, R. Cuevas-Saavedra, P. W. Ayers
      Pages 199-208
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About this book

This book presents a collection of invited research and review contributions on recent advances in (mainly) theoretical condensed matter physics, theoretical chemistry, and theoretical physics. The volume celebrates the 90th birthday of N.H. March (Emeritus Professor, Oxford University, UK), a prominent figure in all of these fields. Given the broad range of interests in the research activity of Professor March, who collaborated with a number of eminent scientists in physics and chemistry, the volume embraces quite diverse topics in physics and chemistry, at various dimensions and energy scales. One thread connecting all these topics is correlation in aggregated states of matter, ranging from nuclear physics to molecules, clusters, disordered condensed phases such as the liquid state, and solid state physics, and the various phase transitions, both structural and electronic, occurring therein. A final chapter leaps to an even larger scale of matter aggregation, namely the universe andgravitation. A further no less important common thread is methodological, with the application of theoretical physics and chemistry, particularly density functional theory and statistical field theory, to both nuclear and condensed matter.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy

    G.G.N Angilella

  • Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    C. Amovilli

About the editors

G.G.N. Angilella is Associate Professor in Condensed Matter Theory at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Italy. Dr. Angilella gained an MSc in Physics from the University of Catania in 1994, and went on to complete his PhD there in 1999. In 2003 he received an award from the European High Pressure Research Group (EHPRG). He has subsequently served as Secretary and later as Chairman of EHRPG, and as a member of the Executive Committee and Secretary for the International Association for Research and Technology at High Pressure (AIRAPT). His research interests include unconventional superconductivity, high pressure physics, and graphene. He is the author of more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and four books, and has acted as a reviewer for more than 70 articles published in American Physical Society journals as well as for numerous articles in other leading journals. He is editor, with N.H. March, of the international scientific journal Physicsand Chemistry of Liquids (Taylor & Francis).

C. Amovilli is Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Italy. Dr. Amovilli gained an MSc in Chemistry at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, in 1984 and went on to obtain a PhD in Chemistry from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa in 1987. He has subsequently been a research fellow or visiting scientist at several international research institutions and universities, including the University of Oxford, the University of Antwerp, ICTP (Trieste), and the Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics (University of Leiden). His research activities include the theoretical study of intermolecular forces, analytical developments within the application of density functional theory to model systems, multiconfigurational calculations in the context of valence bond and molecular orbital theories, and calculations on boron and carbon clusters. He isthe author of more than 100 research articles and chapters in specialized books.

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