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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

U

UA united atom
UAMO unprojected alternant molecular orbital
UBA unitarized Born approxn.
UBFF Urey-Bradley force field - 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)), p. 179
UCAS-SCF unrestricted complete active space self-consistent field
UCC unitary coupled-cluster
UCC(n) unitary coupled-cluster [truncated to nth order]
UCCD (spin)unrestricted coupled cluster (with) double (excitations)
UCDW ultrarelativistic continuum distorted wave
UCEPA unitary coupled electron pair approximation
UCHF uncoupled Hartree-Fock
UCHFPT uncoupled Hartree-Fock perturbation theory
UCID unrestricted ci (with) single (and) double (excitations)
UDF unrestricted Dirac-Fock
UDWA unitarized distorted-wave approximation
UDWBA unitarized disorted wave Born approxn. (for scattering)
UEBS unitarized Eikonal Born series (in electron-atom scattering)
UEFF effective potential (method for calculating association-reaction rates) - N. Markovic and S. Nordholm, Chem. Phys., 135, 109 (1989)
UGA unitary-group approach (in quantum calcns.)
UGF unitary-group formulation (in many-body quantum theory)
UHF unrestricted open-shell Hartree-Fock method - A. Szabo & N. S. Ostlund, Modern Quantum Chemistry (Macmillan, New York, 1982)
UHF-AA unrestricted Hartree-Fock (with spin) annihilation
UHF-CO unrestricted Hartree-Fock crystal orbital
UHFQ unrestricted Hartree-Fock with quartet annihilation
UHFS unrestricted Hartree-Fock-Slater
UHV ultrahigh vacuum.
UKB unrestricted kinetic balance (in calcns. of wave functions and energies)
ULFM unified ligand field model (for mol. electronic energies)
UMBPT(n) unrestricted many-body perturbation theory of order n
UMINDO spin-unrestricted modified intermediate neglect of differential overlap
UMNDO spin-unrestricted modified neglect of diatomic overlap
UMO unmodified molecular orbital
UMP unrestricted M�ller-Plesset
UMP2 unrestricted M�ller-Plesset 2nd-order (perturbation theory)
UMP4SDTQ unrestricted M�ller-Plesset 4th-order (perturbation theory with) single, double, triple, and quadruple (excitations)
UNIMOL the name given to several (and separate) computer programs for calculating unimolecular rate coefficients
UNO unrestricted natural orbital
UNO-CAS unrestricted natural orbital-complete active space
UOVMO unoccupied valence-type mol. orbital
UPA unitary-pole approximation
UPS ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy.
UQ-NG uniform-quality (basis set) constructed with a number (n) of gaussian (g) functions
UQCISD unrestricted quadratic CI (with) single (and) double (excitations)
US unified statistical
USPC unoccupied-states potential correction
UTAO undistorted traveling atomic orbital
UW-PG uniformly weighted planar grid (method in calcns. of electron-momentum distributions)

 

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

 


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RONALD D. BROWN
Chemistry Department, Monash University, Clayton Victoria 3168, Australia
Responses by e-mail would be particularly appreciated, the number being:
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