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Quantum Chemistry VI — Frontiers

Courses

Where the field is open. Each elective stands alone on top of the core series and connects to the site’s research-grade material — the VMC paper reproduction, the solid-state pages, the TDDFT/Casida machinery.

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Unit 1

Quantum Monte Carlo

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VMC and DMC — stochastic exactness, bridged to the Caffarel paper reproduction.

  • lessonVariational Monte Carlo: Metropolis meets the variational principleplanned
  • projectProject — VMC for H₂ with a Jastrow factor, in the browserplanned
  • readingReading — the Caffarel zero-variance paper reproductionplanned
Unit 2

Periodic systems

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From molecules to solids: k-points, bands, and the H-chain as the bridge.

  • lessonBloch states for chemistsplanned
  • live demoLive — Band formation in an H-chain (Knot → wasm)planned
  • readingReading — Zone folding & APW/LAPW (solid-state pages)planned
Unit 3

Excited states beyond CIS

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EOM-CC concepts and where conical intersections live.

  • lessonEOM-CC in outlineplanned
  • lessonConical intersections: where Born-Oppenheimer endsplanned
Unit 4

Relativistic effects

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Why gold is gold: scalar relativity and effective core potentials.

  • lessonScalar relativity and ECPs for usersplanned