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ACRONYMS USED IN THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY

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AADO angular (momentum conservation) average dipole orientation (theory for calculation of ion-molecule capture rates) T. Su and M.T. Bowers, in Gas Phase Ion Chemistry, edited by M.T. Bowers, (Academic Press, New York, 1979), Vol. 1, p. 83.
AAFEGE asymptotically adjusted free-electron-gas exchange (potential)
AAMOM an approximate molecular orbital method
AAPDI anisotropic atom point dipole
AAT atomic axial tensor (in molecular optical properties calcns.)
ABBOT atomic billiard ball orbital theory
ABC absorbing boundary condition (Green function)
ABO adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer (wave functions)
AC (1) adiabatic capture (theory for association and ion-molecule reactions without energetic barriers) - D.C. Clary, Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem., 41, 61 (1990) (2) autocorrelation (function) D.A. McQuarrie, Statistical Mechanics (Harper and Row, New York, 1976), Chapter 21.
ACC approximate coupled cluster
ACC-IOS azimutal close coupled-infinite order sudden
ACCD approximate double substitution coupled cluster method
ACCDPPA approximate coupled cluster with double excitations polarization propagator approximation
ACGCSA adiabatic capture + global centrifugal sudden approximation (theory for association and ion-molecule reactions without energetic barriers) - T. Stoecklin, C.E. Dateo, and D.C. Clary, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., 87, 1667 (1991)
ACIOSA adiabatic capture + infinite order sudden approximation (theory for association and ion-molecule reactions without energetic barriers) - T. Stoecklin, C.E. Dateo, and D.C. Clary, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., 87, 1667 (1991)
ACM adiabatic channel model
ACO atomic-cell orbital
ACORE atomic core orbitals
ACP approximate coupled-pair (method for correlation-energy calcn.)
ACPCSA adiabatic capture + partial centrifugal sudden approximation (theory for association and ion-molecule reactions without energetic barriers) - T. Stoecklin, C.E. Dateo, and D.C. Clary, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., 87, 1667 (1991)
ACPF averaged coupled-pair functional method -R. J. Gdantiz and R. Ahlrichs, Chem. Phys. Lett. 143, 413 (1988).
ACPQ approx. coupled-pair (theory cor. for connected) quadruply (excited clusters)
ACPTQ approx. coupled pair (theory cor. for connected) triple and quadruply excitations
ACQM arrangement-channel quantum mechanics
ACS adiabatically corrected sudden
ACT activated complex theory: also called "Absolute Rate Theory". Name given to early form of transition state theory - P.J. Robinson and K.A. Holbrook, Unimolecular Reactions (Interscience, London, 1972)
ADC(n) algebraic diagrammatic construction accurate to order n in the residual electron-electron interaction - J.Schirmer and L. S. Cederbaum, J. Phys. B 11, 1889 (1978); J. Schirmer, L. S. Cederbaum, and O. Walter, Phys Rev. A 28, 1237 (1983)
ADLCM angle-dependent line-of-centers model
ADO average dipole orientation (in ion-mol. reactions)
ADRIOS adiabatic reactive infinite order sudden approximation
ADW (1) asymptotic distorted wave (2) (rotationally-)adiabatic-distorted-wave (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
ADWIOS adiabatic distorted wave infinite order sudden
AE-CI all electron-configuration interaction
AEA-MO all-electron approxn.-mol. orbital
AEFCA all-electron frozen-core approximation
AESOP ab-initio effective spin-orbit operator
AEVO active electron virtual orbital
AFQMC auxiliary-field quantum Monte-Carlo
AGCM adiabatic generator coordinate method (for energy level calcn.)
AGFA asymptotic Green function approxn.
AGP antisymmetrized geminal product (wave function)
AHF approximate Hartree-Fock method
AHM average hamiltonian model method
AHP average hole-potential (method for electronic-structure calcns. on molecules)
AI adiabatic invariance method
AIADC (3) ab initio third-order algebraic diagrammatic construction Green function method
AIEMP ab initio embedding model potential
AIM (1) adiabatic invariance method (in ion-mol. reactions) (2) atoms in molecules method - R. F. W. Bader, T. T. Nguyen-Dang, Rep. Prog. Phys., 44, 894 (1981)
AIMD ab initio molecular dynamics
AIMDSA ab initio molecular dynamics simulated annealing
AIMP ab initio model potential (for valence-electron mol. calcns.)
AIP angular-dependent part of the intermolecular potential
AIPM analytic independent-particle model (in electron-scattering)
AM1 Austin model 1, a computer program for obtaining a semiempirical solution to the electronic Schrdinger equation - M. J. S. Dewar, E. V. Zoebisch, E. F. Healy, and J. J. P. Stewart, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 3902 (1985)
AMBER a computer program using molecular mechanics - S. J. Weiner, P. A. Kollman, D. A. Case, U. C. Singh, C. Ghio, G. Alagona, S. Profeta Jr., and P. Weiner, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 106, 765 (1984)
AMO alternant molecular orbital
AMO MT alternant molecular orbital Matsubara-Toyozawa method
AMPAC a computer program for implementing a number of semi- empirical solutions to the electronic Schrdinger equation - M. J. S. Dewar, QCPE Program 506 (1987)
ANA adiabatic nuclei approximation (in electron-mol. scattering)
ANMO average-natural molecular orbital
ANO (1) atomic natural orbitals - J. Almlof and P. R. Taylor,J. Chem. Phys , 86, 4070 (1987) (2) average natural orbitals (3) approximate natural orbital
ANR adiabatic nuclear rotation (in calcns. on mol. collisions)
AO atomic orbital.
AOM (1) atomic overlap matrix (2) angular overlap model
AOVB atomic orbital valence bond (molecular wave function)
APA adiabatic perturbation approxn.
APDG antisymmetrized product of delocalized geminals (wave function)
APDI anisotropic point-dipole interaction
APG antisymmetrized product of geminals (wave function)
APGF antisymmetrical product of group functions (a wave function)
APH adiabatically adjusting, principal axis, hyperspherical coordinates - R. T Pack and G. A. Parker, J. Chem. Phys. 87, 3888 (1987)
APIG antisymmetrized product (of) identical geminals
APLG antisymmetrized product of localized geminals (wave function)
APNO atomic pair natural orbital
APS adiabatic pseudopotential
APSG (1) antisymmetrized product of separated geminals (2) antisymmetrized product of spin geminals method (3) antisymmetrized product of strongly orthogonal geminals (variant of multiconfiguration self-consistent field method)
APSGF antisymmetrical product of strongly orthogonal group functions (a wave function)
APT (1) analytic perturbation theory (2) atomic polar tensor (in ir spectra calcn.)
APUHF approximately projected unrestricted Hartree-Fock
APUMPn approximately projected unrestricted Mller-Plesset nth-order
APW augmented plane wave
AQO average quadrupole orientation (theory for calculation of ion-molecule capture rates) T. Su and M.T. Bowers, in Gas Phase Ion Chemistry, edited by M.T. Bowers, (Academic Press, New York, 1979), Vol. 1, p. 83
AREP averaged relativistic effective potential
ARO analytical radial orbital
ARPA augmented random phase approximation
ARSCF approximate relativistic SCF
ARSCFC approximate relativistic SCF (with) corrections
ART absolute rate theory (name given to early form of transition state theory) - P.J. Robinson and K.A. Holbrook, Unimolecular Reactions (Interscience, London, 1972)
ASA (1) alternancy symmetry adapted (method for spin-independent hamiltonians for alternant hydrocarbons) (2) atomic sphere approximation
ASBOW axial spin bond-order wave
ASCW axial spin current wave (type of Hartree-Fock wave function)
ASDW axial spin density wave
ASE augmented secular equation
ASED atom superposition and electron delocalization (MO)
ASEHF approximate spin-extended Hartree-Fock
ASF augmented-space formalism (a generalization of CPA)
ASMO antisymmetrical molecular orbital
ASO atomic spin orbital
ASPG antisymmetrized product of separated geminals approxn.
ASW (1) augmented spherical wave (2) axial spin wave (type of Hartee-Fock wave function)
ATA average t-matrix approximation
ATDHF adiabatic time-dependent Hartree-Fock
ATM analytic tetrahedron method (for Brillouin-zone integrals and electron spin densities)
AUHF annihilated unrestricted Hartree-Fock method
AUMP annihilated unrestricted Mller-Plesset (spin contaminant)
AVCC-IOS azimuthal (and) vibrational close-coupled (rotational) infinite order sudden
AVDP analytic velocity-dependent potential (for electron scattering)
AVE all valence electron
AVO average virtual orbital
AWM average wave function method (in calcns. on scattering)
AWP adiabatic wave packet - E. Deumens and Y. Ohrn, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 92, 3181 (1988)

 

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