NKEA05037U Advanced Quantum Chemistry (KemiVK)
Volume 2024/2025
Education
BSc Programme in Chemistry
BSc Programme in Nanoscience
Content
- General angular momentum theory.
- Time-independent perturbation theory and variation theory.
- Born-Oppenheimer approximation and molecular potential energy surfaces.
- General operator properties and the antisymmetrizer of the permutation group.
- Many-electron theory (Slater determinants and Slater-Condon rules).
- Hartree-Fock-Roothaan theory for self consistent treatment of molecular electronic states.
- Methods for describing electron correlation: Configuration Interaction (CI), Møller-Plesset perturbation Theory (MP2), Coupled Cluster (CC) and Density Functional Theory (DFT).
- Molecular interaction with external electric fields by means of perturbation theory.
Learning Outcome
The overall goal of the course is to make students able to
understand and ndle the quantum chemical description of
many-electron systems like atoms and molecules. In completing the
course the student is expected to have acquired
After the course the student should be able to:
- Explain and use fundamental quantum chemical conceps like probability densities, commutator relations.
- Derive the eigenvalue spectrum for general angular momentum operators and apply the result in connection with the description of atoms and molecules.
- Explain the variation principle and to derive the linear variation method and the time-independent perturbation theory.
- Formulate the Pauli principle for many-electron sytstems.
- Discuss determinantal electronic wavefunctions.
- Derive and use the so-called Slater-Condon rules for the evaluation of expectation values over many-electron operators.
- Derive the Hartree-Fock equations and explain the Brillouin's and Koopmans' theorems.
- Explain Roothaan's equations and their use in electronic structure calculations.
- Discuss the contents of Density Functional Theory and correlated methods like Configuration Interaction, Møller-Plesset Perturbation Theory and Coupled Cluster.
- Apply perturbation theory in the calculation of electric polarizabilities of atoms and molecules.
Knowledge:
- Understand the theoretical description of the electronic structure of many-electron atoms and molecules.
Skills:
- Derive and use fundamental equations used in the description of the electronic structure of many-electron atoms and molecules.
Competences:
- Explain the quantum chemical description of many-electron atoms and molecules.
- Explain the theory underlying the most frequently employed methods used in computational chemistry.
Literature
Will be announces in Absalon
Recommended Academic Qualifications
It is expected that the
students are familiar with the contents of the obligatory courses
in first year of the bachelorprogram in Chemistry or Nanoscience.
Furthermore it is expected that the students have qualifications
within the field of basic quantum mechanics or quantum
chemistry.
Teaching and learning methods
Class instructions or
lectures and theoretical exercises during 7 weeks
Workload
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 42
- Preparation
- 142,5
- Theory exercises
- 21
- Exam
- 0,5
- Total
- 206,0
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Exam
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, 30 minutes with no preparation time
- Aid
- Without aids
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners
- Re-exam
Same as the ordinary exam.
Criteria for exam assesment
See "Learning Outcome"
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NKEA05037U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Bachelor
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 4
- Schedule
- C
- Course capacity
- No limitation – unless you register in the late-registration period (BSc and MSc) or as a credit or single subject student.
Study board
- Study Board of Physics, Chemistry and Nanoscience
Contracting department
- Department of Chemistry
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinators
- Kurt Valentin Mikkelsen (kmi@chem.ku.dk)
Lecturers
Kurt V. Mikkelsen
Stephan P. A. Sauer
Saved on the
20-02-2024