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ACRONYMS USED IN THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY

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M

MAB molecular Aharonov-Bohm (electronic-structure effect)
MACS modified atomic charge superposition (in calcns. on atom-surface scattering potentials)
MAGW momentum-averaged gaussian-weighted (method in calcns. of electron-momentum distributions)
MAM modified atoms (in) molecules
MAMO multiparameter alternant molecular orbital
MAO modified atomic orbital
MAPW modified augmented plane wave
MASP-HMO mutual additive substituent parameter-H�ckel molecular orbital
MB-SAPT many-body symmetry-adapted perturbation theory
MBBSIS mixed-basis band-structure interpolation scheme
MBDOS many-body density of states
MBE many-body expansion (in molecular potential energy surface calcn.)
MBESHO maximum bond-energy symmetry hybrid orbital
MBGF many-body Green function
MBP mixed basis pseudopotential (method for electronic-structure)
MBPT many-body perturbation theory
MBPTn many-body perturbation theory of order n. (= MPPTn = MPn) - H. P. Kelly, Phys. Rev. 131, 684 (1963)
MBPV mixed-basis potential variation (for electronic-structure calcn.)
MBRSPT many-body Rayleigh-Schr�dinger perturbation theory
MBS minimum basis set wave function
MBSP molecular basis set for parameterization (of a semiempirical model).
MBSCI minimum basis set configuration interaction
MBT many-body theory
MC (1) McLean-Chandler basis set (2) Monte-Carlo method - J.M. Hammersley and D.C. Handscomb, Monte-Carlo Methods (Metheun, London, 1964); Y.A. Shrieder, The Monte-Carlo Method: the Method of Statistical Trials (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1966)
MCBS monomer centred basis set (in quantum calculations of dimers)
MCC (1) molecular coupled-cluster (method) (2) multiple curve crossing
MCCHF multiconfiguration coupled Hartree-Fock
MC CI multiconfigurational configuration interaction
MC CMO multiconfigurational complex molecular orbital
MCDF multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock
MCDF-EAL multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock-extended average level (for energy levels and wave functions calcn. for atoms)
MCDF-OL multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock optimum level
MCDW matrix continuum distorted wave
MC-DWBA multichannel distorted wave Born approxn.
MCE multichannel Eikonal (method for scattering calcns.)
MCEB multiconfiguration energy bound
MCEB-NEV multiconfigurational energy bound-natural eigenvalue method
MCEP multiconfigurational electron propagator (in ionization potential calcns.)
MCF mutually consistent field method (in calcns. on intermolecular interactions)
MCGR Monte-Carlo renormalization group (see MCRG below)
MCHF multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock
MCHF-BP multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock Breit-Pauli
MC-INDO molecular cluster-intermediate neglect of differential overlap
MCLR multiconfigurational linear response (an MC-SCF method)
MCM multiconfigurational (variation of) moments (for MO correlation diagrams calcn.)
MC-MBPT multiconfiguration many-body perturbation theory
MCMP modified corrugated Morse potential
MCNDO modified complete neglect of differential overlap
MCOPM multiconfiguration optimized potential model
MCP (1) Marcus - Coltrin path (2) model core potential
MCP2P multiconfigurational particle-particle propagator
MCPA molecular coherent-potential approximation
MCPF self-consistent field modified coupled-pair functional (method in CI calcns.)
MCPF+R modified coupled-pair functional (method with) relativistic (correction)
MCPI Monte-Carlo path integration
MCPN matrix coherent potential approximation
MCPSAG Marcus-Coltrin-path semiclassical adiabatic ground-state (transmission coeffs.)
MCQDA multichannel quantum defect analysis
MCQDT multichannel quantum defect theory
MCRG Monte-Carlo renormalization group
MCRHF multiconfigurational relativistic Hartree-Fock
MCRPA multiconfigurational random phase approxn.
MCRRPA multiconfiguration relativistic random phase approxn.
MCSCF multi-configuration self-consistent field theory.
MC-SCF (1) Monte-Carlo self-consistent-field (2) multiconfiguration self-consistent field method for solution of the electronic Schr�dinger equation, involving simulataneous optimization of molecular orbitals and linear combinations of configurations
MCSCO

multiconfiguration self-consistent orbital

MCSCRF multiconfiguration self-consistent reaction field
MC-SEA multichannel static-exchange approximation
MCSTEP multiconfigurational spin-tensor electron propagator
MCSX multiconfiguration single excitation
MCTDH multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree (theory)
MCTDHF multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree-Fock
MC-TD-SCF

multiconfiguration-time dependent-self-consistent field

MCTI multiconfiguration thermodynamic integration - T.P. Straatsma & J.A. McCammon, J. Chem. Phys., 95, 1175 (1991)
MCWF Monte-Carlo wave function (method in study of dissipative processes in quantum optics)
MCY Matsuoka-Clementi-Yoshimine (potential function) - G.C. Lie, E. Clementi, and M. Yoshimine, J. Chem. Phys., 64, 2314 (1976)
MCZDO many center zero differential overlap
MD molecular dynamics - M.P. Allen and D.J. Tildesley, Computer Simulations of Liquids (Oxford Science Publications, Oxford, 1990); D.M. Hirst, A Computational Approach to Chemistry (Blackwells Scientific, Oxford, 1990)
MDC molecular dynamic coordinates
MDI modified dipole interaction(model for mol.-polarizability calcn.)
MD/MC-CEM molecular dynamics/Monte-Carlo-corrected effective medium
MDS matrix-diagonalization sudden approximation (for atom surface scattering calcns.)
MDW (1) mixed density wave (2) multichannel distorted wave (Born approxn.)
MEAN multipole-extracted adiabatic-nuclei (for electron-molecule collisions)
MECI (1) monoexcited configuration interaction (2) multielectron configuration interaction
MECOP modified electron correlation polarization (potential)
MEDO multipole expansion of diatomic overlap approximation
MEDOC multipole expansion defined (on) one center (a wave function in calcns. on atomic and molecular collisions)
MEG (1) mixed exponentially generated (wave function) (2) modified electron gas (quantum calcn. method)
MEG4 multiexponentially generated 4 (wave functions)
MEHT modified extended H�ckel theory
MEMPT many-electron many-photon theory (in dynamic-polarizability calcns. for atoms and ions)
MEMTB many-electron molecule tight-binding (for electronic structures)
MEP (1) matrix effective potential (for scattering calcns.) (2) molecular electrostatic potential (3) minimum energy path (usually taken to be the "intrinsic reaction path") - eg., S. Glasstone, K.J. Laidler, and H. Eyring, The Theory of Rate Processes (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1941)
MERP minimum energy reaction path - see MEP (3)
MERT modified effective-range theory (for electron-mol. scattering)
MESQUAC-MO mixed electrostatic quantum chemical calculation-mo
MET (1) many electron theory (for singlet ground state) (2) multichannel Eikonal theory (in atom electron-impact excitation)
MEUG minimum energy uncertainty gaussian (wave packets)
MF muffin tin (potential energy function)
MFA (1) molecular-field approximation (2) mean field approximation
MFC multiconfigurational frozen core (approxn. for electron-atom scattering calcns.)
MFE modulated free electron orbital method
MFP magnetic field perturbative (method)
MGA modified Glauber approxn. (in atom-particle scattering)
MG-FSGO multiple gaussian-floating spherical gaussian orbital method
MGVB modified generalized valence bond
MHA Mott-Hubbard-Anderson (model in band-structure calcns.)
MHW MO Mulliken-Helmholz-Wolfsberg molecular orbital
MIA multiplicative integral approxn. (in 2-electron integral calcn.)
MIAM modified independent-atom model (for electron-molecule scattering)
MIDI* split valence plus polarization function (basis set)
MIDI-N split-type contracted GTO basis set (n = 1,2,3, or 4)
MIEHM

modified iterative extended H�ckel method

MIES maximum ionicity excited state (model in energy calcn. of mols.)
MIH method of intermediate hamiltonians
MIM (1) molecules in molecules (2) multipole-induced-multipole model
MINDO modified intermediate neglect of differential overlap - T. Clark, A Handbook of Computational Chemistry: A Practical Guide to Chemical Structure and Energy Calculations (Wiley, New York, 1985)
MINDO/3 modified intermediate neglect of differential overlap, version3 - a method for solving the electronic Schr�dinger equation semiempirically - M. J. S. Dewar, R. C. Bingham, & D. H. Lo, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 97, 1285 (1975) QCPE program 506, QCPE Bull., 6 (1986)
MINDO/3L modified intermediate neglect of differential overlap, version3, for limited electrons
MINDO/SR MINDO s=overlap integral r=internuclear distance
MINI-N minimal-type contracted GTO basis set (n= 1,2,3, or 4)
MIOSA modified (rotational) infinite order sudden approxn.
MITFITS modified ITFITS
MLCT metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (state)
MM molecular mechanics - M.P. Allen and D.J. Tildesley, Computer Simulations of Liquids (Oxford Science Publications, Oxford, 1990); D.M. Hirst, A Computational Approach to Chemistry (Blackwells Scientific, Oxford, 1990)
MM2 a computer program using molecular mechanics - N. L. Allinger, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 99, 3279 (1977)
MMC molecular mechanics for clusters model - C.E. Dykstra, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 111, 6168 (1989)
MMCDF multichannel multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock method
MMSV Morse-Morse-spline-Van der Waals (potential function)
MNDO modified neglect of diatomic overlap - a method for solving the electronic Schr�dinger equation semiempirically , which implements a version of the NDDO (neglect of diatomic differential overlap) scheme - M. J. S. Dewar and W. Thiel, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 99, 4907 (1977)
MNDOC modified neglect of diatomic overlap with a perturbative treatment of electron correlation, a computer program for obtaining a semiempirical solution to the electronic Schr�dinger equation - W. Thiel, J. Am Chem. Soc. 103, 1413 (1981)
MNDOD modified neglect of diatomic overlap with d atomic orbitals - W. Thiel, A. A. Voityuk, Theoret. chim. Acta, 81, 391 (1992)
MNDO/HMNDO for H-bonded systems
MNDO-HE modified neglect of differential diatomic overlap-half electron
MNDO/M modified MNDO
MNDO-PM3 modified neglect of diatomic overlap-parameterization method 3 - J. J. P. Stewart, J. Comput. Chem., 10, 209 (1989)
MO molecular orbital
MOA maximum overlap approximation
MOAG MINDO optimized adjusted geometries
MOBI MO bond index
MOBK modified Oppenheimer-Brinkman-Kramers (approxn. in calcns. on atomic and molecular collisions with ions)
MOCD molecular orbital correlation diagram
MOCED molecular orbital constrained electron diffraction method
MOCETGAO molecule-optimized contracted even-tempered gaussian atomic orbital
MOCIC MO constraint of interaction coordinates
MOEXP Morse oscillator exponential repulsion potential
MOLCAS a computer program for solving the electronic Schr�dinger equation - G. Karlstrom, P.-A. Malmquist, B. O. Roos, A. J. Sadlej, and P. O. Widmark, MOLCAS-1 (University of Lund and Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, 1990)
MOLECULE a computer program for solving the electronic Schr�dinger equation.
MOLVIB a computer program for normal coordinate treatment of molecular vibrations - T. Sundius, J. Mol. Struct. 218, 321 (1990)
MOM (1) maximum overlap method (2) modified operator method (for energy-level calcns.)
MOMM a hybrid method combining molecular orbital and molecular mechanics techniques - J. Kao and N. L. Allinger, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 99, 975 (1977)
MOMO maximum overlap molecular orbital
MONSTERGAUSS a computer program for solving the electronic Schr�dinger equation (later developed as MUNGAUSS) - M. R. Peterson and R. A. Poirier, Chemistry Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
MOPAC a computer program for obtaining a semiempirical solution to the electronic Schr�dinger equation - J. J. P. Stewart, QCPE, Program 455 (1983)
MOPW modified orthogonalized plane wave
MORBID Morse oscillator-rigid bender internal dynamics (hamiltonian in rotational-vibrational energy levels calcn.)
MORT molecular orbital resonance theory
MOSHO maximum overlap symmetry hybrid orbital
MOSMO maximum overlap symmetry molecular orbital
MOSO maximum overlap symmetry orbital (MO for mols.)
MOT multistate orbital treatment
MOVB MO

valence bond

MOVBET molecular orbital (into) valence bond exponential transformation
MOVFF modified orbital valence force field
MOVS molecular orbital valence state
MP Markovian process
MP2 M�ller-Plesset second-order perturbation theory
MP2(FU) MP2 (full) inner-core electrons are included in the approxn.
MP2(FC) MP2 (frozen core) only (outer) valence electrons included in the approximation
MP3 M�ller-Plesset third-order perturbation theory
MP4(DQ) M�ller-Plesset perturbation treatment to fourth order in the space of double and quadruple substitutions
MP4(SDTQ) M�ller-Plesset (perturbation theory to) 4th order with single, double, triple and quadruple (excitations)
MPA Mulliken population analysis
M-PCILO modified PCILO
MPDS moment-polarized Dirac-Slater
MPHF maximally paired Hartree Fock
MPI (1) modified perturbation iteration (2) many-particle interaction
MPn Moller-Plesset perturbation theory of order n for electron correlation - C. Moller and M. S. Plesset, RevPhys. . 46, 618 (1934)
MPNO molecular pair natural orbital
MPnSD Moller-Plesset perturbation theory of order n including single and double excitations
MPnSDQ Moller-Plesset perturbation theory of order n including single, double, and quadruple excitations
MPnSDQT Moller-Plesset perturbation theory of order n including single, double, quadruple, and triple excitations
MPO modified polarized orbital
MPOBK model potential Oppenheimer-Brinkman-Kramers
MPPA most probable path approach
MPPT M�ller-Plesset perturbation theory
MPPTn Moller-Plesset perturbation theory of order n
MP-QMC model potential-quantum Monte-Carlo
MPT (1) matrix perturbation theory (2) mean passage time (theory) - G. Weiss, Adv. Chem. Phys., 13, 1 (1967)
MPW multiple plane wave (in electronic-property for metals)
MQDT multichannel quantum defect theory
MQW multi(quantum well) (electronic structure as in superlattices of semiconductor films)
MR-ACPF multireference-averaged coupled pair functional
MRBW multireference Brillouin-Wigner
MRCC multireference coupled cluster
MR-CCI multireference contracted configuration interaction
MR-CCSD multireference-CCSD
MRCEPA multireference coupled-electron-pair approxn
MR-CEPM multireference-coupled electron pair method
MR-CI multireference-CI
MR-CI-PS multireference-CI-perturbatively selected
MRD-CI (1) multireference determinant configuration interaction (2) multireference double-excitation configuration interaction
MRINDO modified Rydberg intermediate neglect of differential overlap
MRINDO/S modified Rydberg intermediate neglect of differential overlap/spectral(or screening)
MRLCC multireference linearized coupled cluster
MR-L-CEPM multireference-linearized-coupled electron pair method
MR-MBPT multireference-many-body perturbation theory
MR-MP multireference M�ller-Plesset (perturbation theory)
MR-MP2 multireference M�ller-Plesset for two-configuration wave function
MR-RWA many resonance-rotating wave approxn.
MR-SAC multireference symmetry-adapted-cluster (quantum theory or wave function for molecular calcns.)
MRSD-CI multireference single and double excitation CI
MRSD-CI+D MRSD-CI (with) Davidson correction
MRSD-CI+P MRSD-CI (with) Pople correction
MRSPT modified Rayleigh-Schr�dinger perturbation theory
MS (1) molecular spinor (2) multiple scattering
MS X(ALPHA) multiple-scattering X(alpha) exchange method
MSA (1) many-trajectory semiclassical approxn. (in at.-collision theory) (2) mean spherical approximation.
MSAE multistate atomic expansion (method for at. collisions)
MSC molecular simulated crystal method (in Compton profile calcns.)
MSCE modified semiclassical exchange (aproxn. in scattering calcns.)
MSM (1) multiple-scattering model (2) multishell method
MSMA Murrell-Shaw-Musher-Amos exchange perturbation theory
MSMO multiple scattering molecular orbital method (also known as X(alpha) scattered-wave)
MSO (1) maximum similarity (spin) orbital (2) modified Slater orbital (3) molecular spin orbital
MSPO method of successive partial orthogonalizations
MS-RC(XI) multiple scattering relativistic correlated (calcn. method)
MS-RHFR momentum-space restricted Hartree-Fock-Roothaan
MST multiple scattering theory
MSV Morse-spline-Van der Waals (interatomic potential)
MSW-X(ALPHA) multiple scattered wave-SCF-X(alpha)
MT muffin-tin (potential)
MTA (1) momentum translation approximation (2) muffin-tin approxn. (of potentials in quantum calcns.) (3) many trajectories approach (4) mean trajectory approximation - S. Sawada, A. Nitzan, and H. Metiu, Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter 32, 851 (1985)
MTBA modified tight-binding approxn.
MTGF muffin-tin Green function
MTGLE molecular time scale generalized Langevin equation (in statistical-mech. calcns. on reactions)
MT-MSX(ALPHA) muffin tin-multiple scattering statistical exchange
MTO muffin-tin orbital
MTX(ALPHA) muffin-tin X(alpha) statistical exchange
MUBFF modified Urey Bradley force field
MUCA molecular unit cell approxn.
MUCS minimum-uncertainty coherent states (wave functions)
MULAP Mulliken approximation
MUNGAUSS a computer program for solving the electronic Schr�dinger equation - R. A. Poirier, M. R. Peterson, and A. Yadav, Chemistry Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
MUSIC multiple signal classification method
MVFF modified valence force field
MVO modified virtual orbital
MVT molecular virial theorem - K. V. Darvesh and R. J. Boyd, J. Chem. Phys. 87, 5329 (1987)
mVTST microcanonical variational transitional state theory - (eg., R.G. Gilbert and S.C. Smith, Theory of Unimolecular and Recombination Reactions (Blackwells Scientific, Oxford, 1990)
MWDA modified weighted density approximation - A. R. Denton and N. W. Ashcroft, Phys. Rev. A , 39, 4701 (1989)
MWH Mulliken-Wolfsberg-Helmholz (molecular orbital method)
MWP moving wave packet (model for molecular scattering)
MZDO modified zero differential overlap

 

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