A Matter of Density: Exploring the Electron Density Concept in the Chemical, Biological, & Materials Sciences Book

Preface vii

Contributors ix

1 Introduction of Probability Concepts in Physics—The Path to Statistical Mechanics 1
N. Sukumar

2 Does God Play Dice? 15
N. Sukumar

3 The Electron Density 41
N. Sukumar and Sunanda Sukumar

4 Atoms in Molecules 67
N. Sukumar

5 Density Functional Approach to the Electronic Structure of Matter 107
N. Sukumar

6 Density-Functional Approximations for Exchange and Correlation 125
Viktor N. Staroverov

7 An Understanding of the Origin of Chemical Reactivity from a Conceptual DFT Approach 157
Arindam Chakraborty, Soma Duley, Santanab Giri, and Pratim Kumar Chattaraj

8 Electron Density and Molecular Similarity 203
N. Sukumar

9 Electrostatic Potentials and Local Ionization Energies in Nanomaterial Applications 233
Peter Politzer, Felipe A. Bulat, James Burgess, Jeffrey W. Baldwin, and Jane S. Murray

10 Probing Electron Dynamics with the Laplacian of the Momentum Density 257
Preston J. MacDougall and M. Creon Levit

11 Applications of Modern Density Functional Theory to Surfaces and Interfaces 271
G. Pilania, H. Zhu, and R. Ramprasad

Index 313