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ACRONYMS USED IN THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY

Please follow the alphabetical links below to each acronym on file.

 

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V

V vibrational (energy, often used in the context of energy transfer)
V-R vibrational-to-rotational (energy transfer)
V-T vibrational-to-translational (energy transfer)
V-V vibrational-to-vibrational (energy transfer)
VADW vibrationally-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
VALMOP valence (electron only) model potential
VAMO variational alternant molecular orbital
VAP valence alternation pair (bonding configuration model)
VB valence bond
VBCI valence bond configuration interaction
VBHL valence bond Heitler-London (wave function)
VBM valence-band model (in electronic structure calcns.)
VBR variational basis representation (in quantum calcns.) - J. C. Light, I. P. Hamilton, and J. V. Lill, J. Chem. Phys., 82, 1400 (1985)
VBS virtual bound state model
VBSCF valence bond self-consistent field
VC-TSAE variable-charge two-state atomic expansion (in collisions)
VCA virtual crystal approximation
VCB-CPA virtual crystal bandwidth-coherent potential approxn. (for electronic-structure calcns. on alloys)
VCC (1) vibrational close-coupling technique (2) variable curvature coordinates (in calcns. on mol. vibrations)
VCC-IOS(A) vibrational close-coupling-(rotational) infinite-order sudden (approximation) (for inelastic atom-molecule quantum scattering calculations) - D.C. Clary, J. Chem. Phys., 75, 209 (1981).
VCC-RIOS vibrational close-coupled-rotational infinite order sudden (approximation for inelastic atom-molecule quantum scattering calculations) - D.C. Clary, J. Chem. Phys., 75, 209 (1981).
VCCPB variable-charge Coulomb-projected Born (approxn. for electron-atom scattering)
VCD vibrational circular dichroism
VCDW vector charge-density wave
VCI (1) valence configuration interaction (wave function) (2) variational configuration interaction (quantum calcn. method)
VCM variational cellular method (for electronic structure calcns.)
VCP virtuals-only counterpoise (method for eliminating basis set superposition error) - J.P. Daudey, P.Claverie, and J.P. Malrieu, Intern. J. Quantum Chem., 8, 1 (1974)
VCT vibronic coupling theory
VD-RCC vibrational diabatic-rotational close-coupled (method in mol. collision calcns.)
VD-RIOS vibrational diabatic-rotational infinite order sudden
VDHF variational Dirac-Hartree-Fock
VDW van der Waals
VDW-RIOS vibrational distorted wave-rotational infinite order sudden
VDZ valence double-zeta basis set
VDZP valence double-zeta plus polarization basis set
VE-PPP variable electronegativity PPP
VEDW IOS vibrational exponential-distorted-wave infinite-order-sudden (method for inelastic mol. collisions calcn.)
VEEH variable electronegativity extended H�ckel method
VEH valence effective hamiltonian method (for electronic structure)
VENUS a computer program for calculating quasiclassical trajectories and variational transition state theory rate coeffiecents - W.L. Hase, R.J. Duchovic, X. Hu, K.F. Lim, D.-H. Lu, G. Pesherbe, K.N. Swamy, S.R. Vande Linde, and R.J. Wolf, QCPE Program
VEO valence electron only
VEOMP valence-electron-only model potential (for mol. SCF calcns.)
VESCF variable electronegativity self-consistent field
VF valence force (model in bond properties calcns. in solids)
VFF valence force field (in electronic-structure calcns.)
VFOT variant Fock operator technique
VGAO variable gauge atomic orbital
VIF valency-point interaction formula (in graph theory with at. and mol. orbitals)
VIP vibronic impact parameter (model for mol. scattering)
VIVAH vibrational variational hyperspherical (for mol. calcns.)
VMC variational Monte-Carlo (quantum calcn. method)
VMO virtual molecular orbital
VO (1) valence orbital (2) virtual orbital
VO/CI virtual orbital/configuration interaction
VOFF valence orbital force field
VOIE valence orbital ionization energy
VOIP valence orbital ionization potential
VP vibrational predissociation
VPA varied portions approach
VPAM variable phase amplitude method (for electron-atom scattering)
VPD-CI variational-perturbation approxn. to double excitation method in configuration interaction
VPM variable phase method (for electron-atom scattering calcns.)
VPSA Vainshtein-Presnyakov-Sobelman approxn. (for excitation in atom-ion collisions)
VPT variational perturbation theory
VQMC variational quantum Monte-Carlo
VQP variable quadratic propagator (in quantum calcns.)
VR vibrational relaxation
VRDDO variable retention of diatomic differential overlap
VRIOSA vibrational/rotational infinite-order sudden approximation
VRPA variational random phase approxn.
VRRKM variational RRKM: microcanonical variational transition state theory (see also mVTST, RRKM, and VTST) - R.G. Gilbert and S.C. Smith, Theory of Unimolecular and Recombination Reactions (Blackwells Scientific, Oxford, 1990)
VRT vibration-rotation-tunneling (spectrum or transition)
VSEPR valence shell electron pair repulsion (model)
VSIE valence-state ionization energy
VSIP valence-state ionization potential
VSM variable screening model (for quasimols. and MO correlation diagrams)
VTST variational transitional state theory - D.G. Truhlar and B.C. Garrett, Acc. Chem. Res., 13, 440 (1980); W.L. Hase, Acc. Chem. Res., 16, 258 (1983).
VU-CC valence universal-coupled cluster
VU-CCSD/R valence universal-coupled cluster (with) single (and) double (excitations) (r = radial components of the cluster amplitudes)
VU-LCC valence-universal-linear coupled cluster
VUV vacuum ultravioletcalcns.)

 

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RONALD D. BROWN
Chemistry Department, Monash University, Clayton Victoria 3168, Australia
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