Computational nanoscience : applications for molecules, clusters, and solids / Kálmán Varga and Joseph A. Driscoll.
"Computer simulation is an indispensable research tool in modeling, understanding and predicting nanoscale phenomena. However, the advanced computer codes used by researchers are too complicated for graduate students wanting to understand computer simulations of physical systems. This book give...
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Variational solution of the Schrödinger equation
- 2. Solution of bound state problems using a grid
- 3. Solution of the Schrödinger equation for scattering states
- 4. Periodic potentials: band structure in one dimension
- 5. Solution of time-dependent problems in quantum mechanics
- 6. Solution of Poisson's equation
- 7. Three-dimensional real-space approach: from quantum dots to Bose-Einstein condensates
- 8. Variational calculations in two dimensions: quantum dots
- 9. Variational calculations in three dimensions: atoms and molecules
- 10. Monte Carlo calculations
- 11. Molecular dynamics simulations
- 12. Tight-binding approach to electronic structure calculations
- 13. Plane wave density functional calculations
- 14. Density functional calculations with atomic orbitals
- 15. Real-space density functional calculations
- 16. Time-dependent density functional calculations
- 17. Scattering and transport in nanostructures
- 18. Numerical linear algebra
- Appendix: Code descriptions.