Professor of Physics and Chemistry Member of Quantum Theory Project  2320 NPB University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611-8440 tel. 352/392-6975 (off), 8722 (fax) E-mail:  monkhorst@qtp.ufl.edu

• Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor for Green  Nuclear Power . A novel fusion reactor concept based on a cylindrically shaped plasma inside of which are a fast proton beam and a slow boron-11 beam with their relative velocity  tuned to a nuclear resonance, producing three helium-4 nuclei and a lot of energy. Click on link for pictures, text and more links.

• Polymer Superconductivity . A joint  experimental/theoretical search for the proper electronic and structural  conditions of conductive polymers for superconductivity likely to occur; development of the many-body tools in order to  quantify the (super) conductive states.

 
• Non-adiabatic Molecular Physics  & Molecular Coupled Cluster Method. Further development and implementation of the Molecular Coupled-Cluster method; chemical physics without the Born Oppenheimer approximation. Time-dependent formulation for scattering and half-collisions (many-body wavepacket dynamics).

 
• Electrons in Extended Systems. Ab Initio Electronic Band Calculations Starting from accurate Hartree wavefunctions and energies, and including exchange and RPA-level correlation with Green's function techniques. Extensive use of momentum and Fourier transform methods deal with conditional convergence problems and the Hartree Fock pathologies. For a recent presentation on this approach, strongly advocating the use of the GW method, click here. (Microsoft Internet Explorer is needed).

• N. Rostoker, M. Binderbauer, and H.J.Monkhorst,  "Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor," Science, 278, 1419 (1997)
• S. Jonsell and H.J. Monkhorst, "Effect from Changes in the Final State Spectrum on the Neutrino Mass Determination from  T2 Beta Decay Experiments," Phys. Rev. Letters 76, 4476 (1996).
• H.J. Monkhorst, "Chemical Physics without the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation: the Molecular Coupled-Cluster method,"  Phys.Rev. A36, 1544 (1987).
• K.Wenzel, K. Szalewicz, J.G. Zabolitzky, B. Jeziorski, and H.J. Monkhorst, "Atomic and Molecular Correlation Energies  with Explicitly Correlated Gaussian Geminals. V. Cartesian Gaussian Geminals and the Neon Atom,"  J. Chem. Phys. 85, 3964 (1986).
• H.J. Monkhorst and J.D. Pack, "On Special Points for Brillouin Zone Integrations," Phys. Rev. B 13, 5188 (1976).

 
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