Preface: Special Topic Section on Advanced Electronic Structure Methods for Solids and Surfaces

Angelos Michaelides; Todd J Martinez; Ali Alavi; Georg Kresse; Frederick R Manby

doi:10.1063/1.4930182

Preface: Special Topic Section on Advanced Electronic Structure Methods for Solids and Surfaces

J Chem Phys. 2015 Sep 14;143(10):102601. doi: 10.1063/1.4930182.

Authors

Angelos Michaelides¹, Todd J Martinez², Ali Alavi³, Georg Kresse⁴, Frederick R Manby⁵

Affiliations

¹ London Centre for Nanotechnology and Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
² Department of Chemistry and the PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
³ Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstr. 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
⁴ Faculty of Physics and Center for Computational Materials Science, Department of Physics, University of Vienna, Sensengasse 8/12, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
⁵ Centre for Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom.

PMID: 26373993
DOI: 10.1063/1.4930182

Abstract

This Special Topic section on Advanced Electronic Structure Methods for Solids and Surfaces contains a collection of research papers that showcase recent advances in the high accuracy prediction of materials and surface properties. It provides a timely snapshot of a growing field that is of broad importance to chemistry, physics, and materials science.

Publication types

Introductory Journal Article