HENDRIK J. MONKHORST
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Professor Emeritus of Physics
and Chemistry Member of Quantum Theory Project 2320 NPB tel. 352/392-6975 (off), 352/392-8722
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
- 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).
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- 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).
Latest Changes: April 16, 2009, 2009