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Elsevier Current Topics In Developmental Biology Volume 75 by Gerald P. Schatten
Current Topics in Developmental Biology provides a comprehensive survey of the major topics in the field of developmental biology. The volumes are valuable to researchers in animal and plant development, as well as to students and professionals who want an introduction to cellular and molecular mechanisms of development. The series has recently passed its 30-year mark, making it the longest-running forum for contemporary issues in developmental biology. 1. Overview - A Standard Model of Solids1.1 Background1.2 The Hamiltonian1.3 Emperical models1.4 Ab initio calculations1.5 Other sections2. Predicting Materials and Properties - Theory of the Ground and Excited States2.1 Introduction2.2 The ground state and density functional formulism2.3 Ab initio pseudopotentials2.4 Electronic, structural, vibrational and other ground-state properties2.5 Electron-phonon interaction and superconductivity2.6 Excited states, spectroscopic properties, and Green's functions2.7 Single-particle Green's function and electron self energy2.8 The GW approximation2.9 Quasiparticle excitations in materials2.10 Electron-hole excitations and the Bethe-Salpeter equation2.11 Optical properties of solids, surfaces, and nanostructures2.12 Spectroscopic properties of nanotubes - a novel 1D system2.13 Summary and perspectives3. Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics - Dynamics and Thermodynamic Properties3.1 Molecular Dynamics3.2 Potential energy surface and electronic structure3.3 Ab-initio Molecular Dynamics: the Car-Parrinello approach3.4 Numerical implementation3.5 An illustrative application: liquid water3.6 Phase diagrams from first-principles3.7 Rare events3.8 Omissions, perspectives and open issues4. Structure and Electronic Properties of Complex Materials: Clusters, Liquids and Nanocrystals4.1 Introduction4.2 The electronic structure problem4.3 Solving the Kohn-Sham problem4.4 Simulating liquid silicon4.5 Properties of confined systems: clusters4.6 Quantum confinement in nanocrystals and dots5. Quantum Electrostatics of Insulators - Polarization, Wannier Functions, and Electric Fields5.1 Introduction5.2 The polarization5.3 Outline of density-functional perturbation theory5.4 The Berry-phase theory of polarization5.5 Reformulation in terms of Wannier functions5.6 The quantum of polarization and the surface charge theorem5.7 Treatment of finite electric fields5.8 Conclusions6. Electron Transport6.1 Introduction 6.2 Conductivity6.3 Conductance versus conductivity ; the point contact6.4 Kubo and other formulas6.5 Supercurrent and Andreev reflection6.6 Bloch-Boltzmann theory6.7 Kondo effect and resistivity minimum in metals6.8 Dirty Fermi liquids and intrinsically diffusive states6.9 Weak localization and quantum corrections6.10 Neutron, photoemission, and infrared spectroscopies6.11 Semiconductors and the metal/insulator transition6.12 Coulomb blockade6.13 Coulomb gap