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ACRONYMS USED IN THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY

Please follow the alphabetical links below to each acronym on file.

 

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N
O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z c 2

D

DA diatomic path approximation
DAF distributed approximating function (in study of quantal wave-packet propagation)
DAIM deformed atoms in molecules
DBC detailed balance corrected
DBE distorted-wave Born exchange
DBHF Dirac-Breit-Hartree-Fock
DBPHF Dirac-Breit-Pauli-Hartree-Fock
DCA (1) direct configurational averaging (in pair potentials for alloys) (2) dressed-cluster approximation (in band-structure calcns.)
DCB (1) Dirac-Coulomb-Breit (2) distorted Coulomb-Born approxn.
DCBA distorted-coupling Born approximation
DCBNX distorted Coulomb-Born no-exchange approxn.
DCBS dimer centred basis set (in quantum calculations of dimers: cf. monomer centred basis set)
DCBX distorted Coulomb-Born exchange approxn.
DCCI dissociation-consistent configuration interaction
DCFCI density-constrained full-configuration-interaction
D-CI double excitations in configuration interaction
DCM decoupled cell Monte-Carlo (in simulations on quantum systems)
DCPA dynamical coherent potential approximation - Ning Lu and Shaul Mukamel, J. Chem. Phys. 95, 1588 (1991).
DDAF discretized distributed approximating function (propagator, in study of wave-packet propagation)
DDMO differential density matrix overlap (index, in electron-correlation calcns.)
DD-NRCE direct dissociative-near resonant charge transfer
DDQRPA double direct quadratic random phase approximation
DDRPA double direct random phase approximation
DE dispersion energy.
DECENT distribution (among quantum states) of exact classical energy transfer
DEM distinguishable electron method
DF (1) density functional formalism (2) Dirac-Fock
DFB Dirac-Fock-Breit
DFMFT density-functional mean-field theory
DF-OCE Dirac-Fock one-center expansion
DFPT density-functional perturbation theory
DFS Dirac-Fock-Slater
DF-SCF Dirac-Fock self-consistent field
DFT density functional theory
DGB distributed gaussian basis (molecular wave function)
DHF (1) decoupled Hartree-Fock (2) derivative Hartree-Fock (quantum theory in calcns. on molecules) (3) Dirac-Hartree-Fock
DHFR Dirac-Hartree-Fock-Roothaan
DHTF Debye-H�ckel-Thomas-Fermi
DID dipole-induced-dipole (in molecular polarizabilities calcn.)
DIIS (1) diatomics-in-ionic-systems (2) direct inversion (in the) iterative subspace (method for optimizing MC-SCF wave functions) - P. Pulay, Chem. Phys. Lett., 73, 393 (1980)
DIM diatomics in molecules
DIM-3C diatomics-in-mols. method including 3-center terms (integrals)
DIMZO diatomics-in-molecules zero-overlap
DIPP deformed inverse-power potential
DIRP direct interaction with product repulsion
DIRP-DIP direct interaction with product repulsion distributed as in photodissociation
DISEP difference integrated spatial electron populations
DIVAH diagonally corrected vibrationally adiabatic hyperspherical (theory in scattering calcns.)
DLA decoupled L-dominant approximation
DLD decoupled L-dominant method (in inelastic-scattering calcns., L= orbital angular momentum)
DLMO density localized molecular orbital
DLVO Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek model for pair interactions
DMA distributed multipole analysis - A.J. Stone and M. Alderton, Mol. Phys., 56, 1047 (1985)
DMBE double many-body expansion (in potential energy surface calcn.)
DMO delocalized molecular orbital
DMP dichotomous Markovian Process (J jumps between two values with the mean frequency)
DNO delocalized natural orbital
DO diatomic orbital
DODS different orbitals for different spins
DOMO doubly occupied molecular orbital
DOS density of states (in band structures)
DPCILO differential perturbative configuration interaction using localized orbitals
DPT degenerate perturbation theory P.W. Atkins, Molecular Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Ed. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983); A. Messiah, Quantum Mechanics (North-Holland, Oxford, 1976)
DPUMPn double-annihilation procedure unrestricted M�ller-Plesset nth- order
DQ-MBPT double and quadruple excitation diagrams in many-body perturbation theory
DQM diffusion quantum Monte-Carlo (theory) (see DQMC)
DQMC diffusion quantum Monte-Carlo theory - D. Ceperley, B. Alder, Science 231, 555 (1986); M Quack, J. Chem. Phys., 95, 28, (1991)
DQMS dressed quasimolecular - states approximation
DQ-RSPT double and quadruple excitation diagrams in Rayleigh-Schr�dinger perturbation theory
DQT dissipative quantum tunneling (theory)
DRF direct reaction field (for intermol. interactions)
DRPA direct random phase approximation
DR-RWA dominant resonance-rotating wave approximation
DSA (1) dynamic simulated annealing (for electronic structure in liq. metals) (2) dynamic simulated annealing (for structure refinement in molecular mechanics) M. Levitt, J. Mol. Biol., 170, 723 (1983)
DSA-EOM dynamic simulated annealing-equations of motion (in liq. metals)
DSCCR diffractive sudden-closed coupled rotation (for molecule-surface scattering calcns.)
DSCF direct self-consistent field
DSDV Dirac-Slater discrete variational
DSGE double Sine-Gordon equation (for describing excitations such as kinks and solitons)
D-SIC degeneracy-dependent self-interaction correction
DSPB distorted-wave strong-potential Born (approxn.)
DSW Dirac scattered-wave (often as SCF-x(alpha)-DSW method)
DTGF double-time Green function
DTZHD double-triple-zeta-Huzinaga-Dunning
DVB diagrammatic valence bond (in study of electronic properties)
DVGR diabatic vibrational golden rule approximation
DVM discrete variational method
DVMO directed-valence molecular orbital
DVR discrete variable representation (in wave function calcn.)
DVR-REV discrete variable representation-ray eigenvector
DV-X(ALPHA) discrete variational-x(alpha) (statistical exchange correlation)
DWA distorted wave approximation - J.N.L. Connor, in The Theory of Chemical Reaction Dynamics, edited by D.C. Clary, (D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1986), p. 247
DWB2 second-order distorted-wave Born
DWBA distorted wave Born approximation (for reactive scattering calculations) - J.N.L. Connor, in The Theory of Chemical Reaction Dynamics, edited by D.C. Clary, (D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1986), p. 247
DWBA3(3DWBA) three-body distorted-wave Born approximation
DWE distorted-wave (approxn. with) exchange
DWES distorted-wave energy sudden (for inelastic mol. collisions)
DWFBA distorted-wave first-order Born approximation
DWIA distorted-wave impulse approximation
DWIOS distorted wave infinite order sudden approximation
DWM distorted wave method
DWP diabatic wave packet - E. Deumens and Y. Ohrn, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 92, 3181 (1988)
DWPE distorted-wave (with) polarization (and) exchange
DWPO distorted wave polarized orbital
DWSBA distorted wave second Born approxn.
DWTM distorted wave t-matrix (for electron-atom scattering)
DWX distorted-wave approxn. with exchange
DZ (1) double zeta (basis set) (2) Dunning-Huzinaga (basis sets)
DZD (double zeta)-diffuse (basis set in configuration-mixing mo calcns. on mols.)
DZDP (double zeta)-diffuse-polarization (basis set in configuration-mixing mo calcns. on mols.)
DZHD double-zeta Huzinaga-Dunning (wave functions)
DZP double zeta + polarization (basis set)
DZPP double-zeta (doubly) polarized (basis set)
DZRS double zeta Roos-Siegbahn (wave functions)

 

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