Angilella G.G.N., Amovilli C. (Eds.) Many-body Approaches at Different Scales: A Tribute to Norman H. March on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday

Springer International Publishing AG, 2018. — 386 p. — ISBN: 3319723731.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 and gravitation. 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.Condensed Matter Theory
Correlations in the Superconducting Properties of Several Material Classes
All-Electrical Scheme for Hall Viscosity Measurement
Computer Simulations of the Structure of Nanoporous Carbons and Higher Density Phases of Carbon
Graphene-Like Massless Dirac Fermions in Harper Systems
Silicene and Germanene as Prospective Playgrounds for Room Temperature Superconductivity
Molecular Ordering in Covalent Solids: A Simple Lattice Model
An Ab Initio Evaluation of Mott Properties?
Wavefunctions for Large Electronic Systems
Electron Tunneling Excitation of a Coupled Two Impurity System
Quantifying the Effect of Point and Line Defect Densities on the melting Temperature in the Transition Metals
Application of the Plane-Wave-Based Perturbation Theory to the Density Modulation Induced by a Point Charge in an Electron Gas
Kovacs Effect and the Relation Between Glasses and Supercooled Liquids
Structural Properties of Ionic Aqueous Solutions
Atomic Spectra Calculations for Fusion Plasma Engineering Using a Solvable Model Potential
Exceeding the Shockley–Queisser Limit Within the Detailed Balance Framework
Theoretical Chemistry
Shannon Entropy and Correlation Energy for Electrons in Atoms
Kinetic Energy Density Functionals from Models for the One-Electron Reduced Density Matrix
A Gradient Corrected Two-Point Weighted Density Approximation for Exchange Energies
From Molecules and Clusters of Atoms to Solid State Properties
Alchemical Derivatives of Atoms: A Walk Through the Periodic Table
Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory: Pauli Potential and Density Scaling
The Role of the N-Representability in One-Particle Functional Theories
Theoretical Physics
Energy Density Functional Theory in Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Second Order Exchange Energy of a d-Dimensional Electron Fluid
Nonlocal Quantum Kinetic Theory and the Formation of Correlations
Quantum Lattice Boltzmann Study of Random-Mass Dirac Fermions in One Dimension
Topological Effects and Critical Phenomena in the Three-Dimensional (3D) Ising Model
Do Two Symmetry-Breaking Transitions in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Complexes (PLHC) Form One, Two or More Kibble–Zurek (KZ) Topological Defect(s)?
Spacetime as a Quantum Many-Body System