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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

Q

Q-DAS quenched decay associated spectrum
QAFM quantum antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model
QAPW quadratic augmented plane wave (in band-structure calcn.)
QBCF quasiband crystal field (ab initio SCF method for defects and impurity levels in solids)
QBM quantal Brownian motion (model)
QBO quantitative basis orbital (an MO or AO)
QC quasi continuum , a dense manifold of (rovibrational) quantum states
QC-SCF quadratically convergent SCF (for closed-shell systems)
QCA (1) quasichemical approxn. (in calcns. on semiconductors) (2) quasicrystalline approximation
QCCA quasiclassical close-coupling approximation
QCD quantum chromodynamics
QCE quantum confinement effects (in clusters)
QCFF/PI quantum mechanical consistent force field method for pi-electron systems
QCI quadratic configuration interaction
QCISD quadratic configuration interaction (with) single (and) double (excitations)
QCISD(T) quadratic configuration interaction technique including single and double excitations and correction for triple excitations - J. A. Pople, M. Head-Gordon, and K. Raghavachari, J. Chem. Phys., 87, 5968 (1987)
QCPE Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange - Creative Arts Building 181, 840 Highway 46 Bypass, Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
QCT quasiclassical trajectory (method for molecular dynamics) - D.M. Hirst, A Computational Approach to Chemistry (Blackwells Scientific, Oxford, 1990); M.P. Allen and D.J. Tildesley, Computer Simulations of Liquids (Oxford Science Publications, Oxford, 1990)
QCT-IEQMT quasiclassical trajectory-internal energy quantum mechanical threshold
QD-MBPT quasi-degenerate many-body perturbation theory
QDM quadrature discretization method (in electron transport properties calcns.)
QDM quantum defect method
QDO quantum-defect orbital (theory)
QDPT quasi-degenerate perturbation theory
QDT quantum-defect theory
QDVPT quasidegenerate variational perturbation theory
QDWT quantum density-wave theory (in theory of freezing of quantum systems)
QEEC quasimol. extended elementary cell (for electronic structure calcns. of crystals)
QET quasiequilibrium theory for the calculation of reaction rate coefficients, a variant of transition state theory (TST)
QFD quantum fluid dynamics
QFDFT quantum-fluid density-functional theory
QFE quasifree electron model
QFT quantum field theory
QG quasigeminals
QGLE quantum generalized Langevin equation
QHA quasi-harmonic approxn. (in intramol. vibrational relaxation)
QIOS quantum infinite-order sudden (method for collisions): see IOSA
QISM quantum inverse scattering method
QKM quadratic Kohn method (variational method for scattering)
QLCPMET quasilinearized coupled-pair-many-electron theory
QLDA quasilocal density functional approxn.
QLGM quantum lattice gas model (in helium superfluid transition temperature in zeolite pores)
QLSM quadratic least-squares method (variational for scattering)
QLUC quasimolecular large unit cell (model for electronic-structure calcns. on solids)
QMC quantum Monte-Carlo (theory for many-electron atoms and mols.) - eg. P.J. Reynolds, D.M. Ceperley, B.J. Adler and W.A. Lester, J. Chem. Phys., 77, 5593 (1982)
QMCRG quantum Monte-Carlo renormalization group (for quantum phase transitions)
QMD quantum molecular dynamics (for calcns. on the dynamics of a quantum particle coupled to a classical many-body system)
QMM quasimolecular mechanism (for intermolecular energy transfer).
QMO quaternionic molecular orbital method
QPEN quantum-mechanical potential (based on interactios of) electrons (and) nuclei
QPID quadrupole induced dipole
QPLDA quasiparticle local-density approxn.
QPM quantum Poincare map
QPMDA quasiparticle mean density approxn. (assocd. with local-density theory)
QR-MWH quasi-relativistic Mulliken-Wolfsberg-Helmholz method
QRF quadratic response function (a quantum propagator)
QRHF-CC quasirestricted Hartree-Fock coupled cluster
QRIOSA quantum reactive infinite order sudden approxn.
QRM quadratic Rubinow method (variational method for scattering)
QSAR quantitative structure-activity relationship
QSI quantum statistical interference
QSM (1) quantum shell model (2) quantum statistical mechanics (3) quantum-statistical model
QSSA quasi-steady-state approximation in kinetics - eg. T. Tur�nyi, A.S. Tomlin, and M.J. Pilling, J. Phys. Chem., 97, 163 (1993)
QSTLS quantum Singwi-Tosi-Land-Sjolander (theory, see also STLS) (for electronic-property calcns. on electron-liquid models)
QTCS quantum theorem of corresponding states
QTPT quantum thermodynamic perturbation theory
QTST quantum transition state theory
QUAPI quasiadiabatic propagator path integral method
QUE quantized universal enveloping (algebras in mol. vibrational spectra calcns.)
QUPID quantum path integral (molecular) dynamics (method in molecular calcns.)
QVB quasiempirical valence bond (method)
QVE quasivibrational energy (formalism in multiphoton dissocn.)

 

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