From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Sat Apr 28 09:58:00 2018
From: "Susi Lehtola susi.lehtola/./alumni.helsinki.fi" <owner-chemistry{:}server.ccl.net>
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Subject: CCL: Magnitude of static field used for calculation of polarizability
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Sent to CCL by: Susi Lehtola [susi.lehtola#%#alumni.helsinki.fi]
On 04/27/2018 05:11 PM, Igors Mihailovs igorsm{=}cfi.lu.lv wrote:
> Dear Dr. Lehtola,
> 
> Can You please suggest something good to read about the theory of CPHF 
> and response functions? I have performed some literature search but it 
> was quite hard to me to sum it up to get at least some understanding of 
> "how it works": I have never attended any serious course on quantum 
> mechanics or chemistry, and I didn't find much literature for laymen 
> like me either. Most books I have read contain either the essential 
> basics or deep discussion, being quite sparse in between.

If you haven't studied quantum mechanics, then understanding wave 
function response might be a bit tricky.

CPHF and response functions are molecular properties, and so good places 
to start are any books written on (the calculation of) molecular 
properties, or the molecular properties sections of introductory quantum 
chemistry textbooks.

By googling around I found e.g. these lecture notes by Julien Toulose 
which appear rather well written

http://surya.lct.jussieu.fr/pagesperso/toulouse/enseignement/molecular_properties.pdf

and which presents CPHF as one example.
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