Reduced Density Matrices: Coulson’s Challenge

by A.J. Coleman, V.I. Yukalov

The authors demonstrate that the essential information about order in, and energy levels of physical systems is encapsulated in the second order reduced density matrix. They have discovered an algorithm to obtain a reasonable accurate expression for the 2-matrix of an N-particle state to make nearly all properties of matter which are of interest to chemists and physicists accessible.

294 pages, Paperback

First published May 25, 2000