Density functional theory

Reiner M. Dreizler, Eberhard K.U. Gross3540519939, 9783540519935

Quantum mechanics was still in swaddling clothes when Thomas, Fermi, Dirac and von Weizsacker initiated the line of thought from which this work derives. Its current vitality owes much to a result achieved by Hohenberg and Kohn (who supplies the foreword) in 1964. The monograph provides advanced graduate students and many-body physicists/chemists with careful review of the present state of a rich body of technique, the objective of which is to by-pass solution of the Schrodinger equation enroute to a fairly detailed description of the ground state properties of many body systems. Has the feel of a review article which outgrew the capacity of any journal (which, the authors inform us, was in fact its origin), and retains at least some of the attractive brevity of such a review, the whole done up in the familiar Springer style.