Methods of Electronic Structure Theory
by Raffaele Resta
1996
Number of pages: 88
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From the table of contents: theory of the electronic ground state; screening and electrostatics; formal linear response theory; electron gas results; pseudopotential perturbation theory; ground state of periodic solids; lattice dynamics.
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