Many-body Approaches at Different Scales : A Tribute to Norman H. March on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday

"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"--Page 4 of cover Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Correlations in the Superconducting Properties of Several Material Classes (G. G. N. Angilella, R. Pucci)....Pages 3-9 All-Electrical Scheme for Hall Viscosity Measurement (F. M. D. Pellegrino, I. Torre, M. Polini)....Pages 11-19 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 Graphene-Like Massless Dirac Fermions in Harper Systems (F. Claro, P. Robles)....Pages 35-41 Silicene and Germanene as Prospective Playgrounds for Room Temperature Superconductivity (G. Baskaran)....Pages 43-57 Molecular Ordering in Covalent Solids: A Simple Lattice Model (F. Siringo)....Pages 59-73 An Ab Initio Evaluation of Mott Properties? (A. Cabo Montes de Oca)....Pages 75-98 Wavefunctions for Large Electronic Systems (P. Fulde)....Pages 99-105 Electron Tunneling Excitation of a Coupled Two Impurity System (F. Flores, E. C. Goldberg)....Pages 107-123 Quantifying the Effect of Point and Line Defect Densities on the melting Temperature in the Transition Metals (C. C. Matthai)....Pages 125-131 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 Kovacs Effect and the Relation Between Glasses and Supercooled Liquids (F. Aliotta, R. C. Ponterio, F. Saija, P. V. Giaquinta)....Pages 139-152 Structural Properties of Ionic Aqueous Solutions (P. Gallo, M. Martin Conde, D. Corradini, P. Pugliese, M. Rovere)....Pages 153-162 Atomic Spectra Calculations for Fusion Plasma Engineering Using a Solvable Model Potential (M. E. Charro, L. M. Nieto)....Pages 163-176 Exceeding the Shockley–Queisser Limit Within the Detailed Balance Framework (M. Bercx, R. Saniz, B. Partoens, D. Lamoen)....Pages 177-184 Front Matter ....Pages 185-185 Shannon Entropy and Correlation Energy for Electrons in Atoms (C. Amovilli, F. M. Floris)....Pages 187-198 Kinetic Energy Density Functionals from Models for the One-Electron Reduced Density Matrix (D. Chakraborty, R. Cuevas-Saavedra, P. W. Ayers)....Pages 199-208 A Gradient Corrected Two-Point Weighted Density Approximation for Exchange Energies (R. Cuevas-Saavedra, D. Chakraborty, M. Chan, P. W. Ayers)....Pages 209-218 From Molecules and Clusters of Atoms to Solid State Properties (G. Forte, A. Grassi, G. M. Lombardo, R. Pucci, G. G. N. Angilella)....Pages 219-226 Alchemical Derivatives of Atoms: A Walk Through the Periodic Table (Robert Balawender, Andrzej Holas, Frank De Proft, Christian Van Alsenoy, Paul Geerlings)....Pages 227-251 Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory: Pauli Potential and Density Scaling (Á. Nagy)....Pages 253-260 The Role of the N-Representability in One-Particle Functional Theories (M. Piris)....Pages 261-278 Front Matter ....Pages 279-279 Energy Density Functional Theory in Atomic and Nuclear Physics (M. Baldo)....Pages 281-290 Second Order Exchange Energy of a d-Dimensional Electron Fluid (M. L. Glasser)....Pages 291-296 Nonlocal Quantum Kinetic Theory and the Formation of Correlations (K. Morawetz)....Pages 297-320 Quantum Lattice Boltzmann Study of Random-Mass Dirac Fermions in One Dimension (Ch. B. Mendl, S. Palpacelli, A. Kamenev, S. Succi)....Pages 321-330 Topological Effects and Critical Phenomena in the Three-Dimensional (3D) Ising Model (Zhidong Zhang)....Pages 331-343 Do Two Symmetry-Breaking Transitions in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Complexes (PLHC) Form One, Two or More Kibble–Zurek (KZ) Topological Defect(s)? (R. H. Squire)....Pages 345-363 Spacetime as a Quantum Many-Body System (D. Oriti)....Pages 365-379 Back Matter ....Pages 381-385