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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

F

FAAO free-atom atomic orbital
FAKE fast accurate kinetic-energy (mo method)
FAO (1) floating atomic orbital (2) frozen atomic orbital
FARM fixed-angle reaction model (in quantum calcns. on reactive scattering)
FBA first Born approximation
FBR finite basis representation (in wave function calcn. for nuclear motion on potential energy surface)
FC (1) frozen core (approxn. for electron-atom scattering calcns.) (2) Franck-Condon (principle or factor)
FCA frozen-core appproximation
FCHF frozen-core Hartree-Fock
FCI full configuration interaction
FCM finite-cluster model (for calcns. on electromigration)
FCP function counterpoise (method for eliminating basis set superposition error) - S.F. Boys and F. Bernardi, Mol. Phys., 19, 553 (1970).
FCSA frequency-corrected sudden approxn. (in mol. collision calcns.)
FDBVM finite difference boundary value method
FEGE free electron gas exchange approximation
FEGO floating ellipsoidal gaussian orbital
FEM (1) finite element method (in at.. Hartree-Fock calcns.) (2) free electron model
FEMO free-electron molecular orbital
FEMP free of empirical parameters (e.g., SINDO/FEMP)
FEN free electron network
FEOE full equalization of orbital electronegativity
FFM finite field method (in molecular polarizabilities calcns.)
FF-MBPT finite-field many-body perturbation theory
FFT fast Fourier transform - A.H. Press, B.P. Flannery, S.A. Teukolsky, and W.T. Vetterling, Numerical Recipes (Fortran Version) (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1989)
FG FG (matrix method in normal mode analysis: F = force-constant matrix; G = mass matrix) - E.B. Wilson Jnr, J.C. Decius, and P.C. Cross, Molecular Vibrations. The theory of infrared and raman vibrational spectra (McGraw Hill, New York, 1955 (reprinted in 1980 by Dover Books))
FGH Fourier-grid hamiltonian
FHBS finite Hilbert basis set
FHMO Fenske-Hall molecular orbital
FHNC Fermi hypernetted chain method (in quantum statistics)
FID free induction decay function (a distribution function of quantum spins in a crystal)
FIM forced impulse method (in atom ion-impact ionization)
FIP full intra-pair (spin-coupling) (wave function)
FISCI final ionic state configuration interaction
FLAPW full-potential linearized augmented plane wave
FLCAO factorized LCAO
FLMTO film linearized muffin-tin orbital (for surface electronic structure calcns.)
FLO face localized orbital
FMAP Fano-Macek alignment parameter (in electron-impact excitation of ions)
FMF frozen molecular fragment (method in calcn. of intermolecular potentials and charge distributions)
FMO (1) floating molecular orbital (2) frontier molecular orbital
FMTBA fitted modified tight-binding approxn.
FNO frozen natural orbital
FOA frozen orbital approximation
FOCI first-order configuration interaction
FOCO first-order correlation orbital
FO-CPHF first-order coupled perturbed Hartree-Fock theory
FOE first-order exchange (in electron-atom scattering calcn.)
FOEA first-order Eikonal approximation
FO-ECP frozen orbital-effective core potential
FOGO floating orbital geometry optimization
FOJT first-order Jahn-Teller
FOM (1) forced oscillator model- H.K. Shin, in Dynamics of Molecular Collisions, edited by W.H. Miller, (Plenum Press, New York, 1976), Vol. A, p. 131 (2) frozen orientation model
FOMBT first-order many-body theory
FO-NACME first-order nonadiabatic coupling matrix elements
FONDA first order non-degenerate adiabatic (approximation)
FOND PT finite-order nondegenerate perturbation theory
FOPIM first order perturbation iteration method
FOPPA first-order polarization propagator approxn.
FORS full optimized reaction space
FOS first-order sudden
FOTO forced oscillation of tightening oscillator
FOTOS first-order theory of oscillator strength
FOURPI Fourier path integral
FP finite perturbation
FPC fractional parentage coefficient (in group-theory calcns.)
FPI Fourier path integral
FP-LMTO full-potential linear combination of muffin-tin orbitals
FP-MC finite perturbation-multiconfigurational method
FPP finite perturbation and polarization
FP-SCF-INDO finite perturbation-SCF-INDO
FPT finite field perturbation theory
FQO forced quantum oscillator method – the following discusses aspects of FQO, although the acronym is not used - H.K. Shin, in Dynamics of Molecular Collisions, edited by W.H. Miller, (Plenum Press, New York, 1976), Vol. A, p. 131
FRC frozen core approxn.
FRSW finite range scattering wave function
FSGO floating spherical gaussian orbital - A. A. Frost, J. Chem. Phys. 47, 3707 (1967)
FSMRCC Fock space multireference coupled cluster
FSMRCCSD Fock space multireference coupled cluster (with) single (and) double excitations
FTHF finite-temperature Hartree-Fock
FTHFB finite-temperature Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov
FTOTF finite temperature optimized Thomas-Fermi theory.
FTST flexible transition state theory - D.M. Wardlaw and R.A. Marcus, J. Chem. Phys., 83, 3462 (1985)
FV-CAS-SCF full valence-complete active space-SCF
FVEH fragment valence effective hamiltonian (in electronic-structure calcns. on mol. fragments)
FV-MC-SCF full valence multiconfiguration self-consistent field
FVRCI full valence Rydberg configuration interaction
FVVM finite volume variational method (for molecular calcns.)
FWE Faddeev-Watson expansion (for t-operator in atomic collisions)

 

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