Dynamical Processes in Molecular Physics: Lectures from the First EPS Southern European School of Physics, Avila, September 1991

This graduate text, dealing with the field of computational atomic structure, concerns itself specifically with the MultiConfiguration Hartree-Fock (MCHF) approach and the manner in which this approach is used in modem physics.

This modem, reliable exposition of atomic structure theory will prove invaluable to anyone looking to make use of the author's MCHF atomic structure software package (available publicly via the Internet). Beginning with an introduction to computational algorithms and procedures for atomic physics the text goes on to describe the theory underlying non-relativistic atomic structure calculations (making use of Brett-Pauli corrections for relativistic effects) and how the MCHF atomic structure software package can be used to this end. Finally the book treats atomic properties such as energy levels, electron affinities, transition probabilities, specific mass shift, fine structure, hyperfine-structure and autoionization.

In Dynamical Processes in Molecular Physics, leading European lecturers outline the fundamental aspects of dynamical processes in molecular physics. The papers included in this book make a valuable contribution to the teaching of molecular physics as well as discussing advances in this area. It covers a wide range of interesting and relevant topics, both experimental and theoretical. Physicists and physical chemists at graduate and research level will find this an invaluable reference.

The last section of the book deals with clusters and the interaction of molecules with surfaces. Both dynamics on van der Waals complexes and properties of large molecular clusters are discussed.