Introduction to Cluster Dynamics

Paul-Gerhard Reinhard has been professor for Theoretical Physics at the Friedrich-Alexander university Erlangen/Nürnberg since 1983. He received his PhD in 1970 at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe university Frankfurt. His post-doctoral studies brought him to Erlangen, Oxford, and Mainz. He obtained his Habilitation in 1977 at the Johannes-Gutenberg university in Mainz. He was fellow of the Heisenberg program in the years 1978-1983. His present research interests cover cluster physics, nuclear structure physics and plasma physics. Eric Suraud has been professor for Theoretical Physics at the Paul-Sabatier university in Toulouse, France, since 1992. He received his PhD in 1984 at the Paris university and his Habilitation in 1989 at the Grenoble university. He was junior member of Institut Universitaire de France in 1994-1999. He is presently director of the Institute de Recherche sur les Systemes Atomiques et Moleculaires Complexes in Toulouse and Vice Director of Institut de Physique Nucléaire et des Particules at CNRS in Paris. His present research interests mostly cover cluster physics and nuclear dynamics.

1. About clusters
2. From clusters to numbers: experimental aspects
3. The cluster many-body problem: a theoretical perspective
4. Gross properties and trends
5. New frontiers in cluster dynamics
6. Concluding remarks
Appendix
A Conventions of notations, symbols, units, acronyms
B Gross properties of atoms and solids
C Some details on basic techniques from molecular physics and quantum chemistry
D More on pseudopotentials
E More on density functional theory
F Fermi gas model and semi-classics
G Linearized TDLDA and related approaches
H Numerical considerations

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Physik Journal