EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N07912/01 |
Title: |
ORBITAL-FREE QUANTUM CHEMISTRY |
Principal Investigator: |
Knowles, Professor PJ |
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Department: |
School of Chemistry |
Organisation: |
University of Birmingham |
Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
Starts: |
01 March 2000 |
Ends: |
28 February 2003 |
Value (£): |
135,209
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Chemicals |
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
New ideas in molecular electronic structure theory will be developed, with a view to enhancing significantly the accuracy and applicability of the quantum-mechanical methods that are widely used in chemistry. The new methods rely on treating the electronic density, the 1 body density matrix, and the 2-body density as the fundamental objects, rather than relying on a set of molecular orbitals to carry them indirectly. This offers the prospect of enhanced efficiency (and therefore wider applicability) for standard theories, and also the flexibility to introduce new theories for electron correlation that might offer, for a reasonable effort, greater accuracy than can be achieved with current standard methods.
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Organisation Website: |
http://www.bham.ac.uk |