The embedding method for electronic structure (Q2796915)

This book is concerned with the study of the embedding method, which is a powerful theoretical and computational technique with relevant applications to several technologically and scientifically important problems. These applications include models in surface and interface electronic structure, adsorption, physics of nanostructures, molecular electronics, plasmonics and photonics, and time domain. Supplemented with demonstration programmes, code and examples, this book provides a thorough review of the method and would be an accessible starting point for graduate students or researchers wishing to understand and use the method.NEWLINENEWLINEThe content of this volume is divided into eleven chapters: 1. Introduction; 2. The variational embedding method; 3. Embedding at surfaces; 4. Electrons at surfaces; 5. Confined electrons and embedding; 6. Tight-binding and the embedding self-energy; 7. Electron transport; 8. Relativistic embedding; 9. Embedding in electromagnetism; 10. Time-dependent embedding; 11. Connections.NEWLINENEWLINEThis volume is mainly addressed to researchers working in the fields of electronic structure and photonics.