Energy Landscapes: Applications to Clusters, Biomolecules and Glasses

ISBN-13: 9780521814157 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 692 str.

David Wales; Richard Saykally; Ahmed Zewail

Opis

Many research groups are now attempting to understand how the properties of systems ranging from small molecules to proteins and glasses are determined by the energy landscape. This book provides a self-contained account of energy landscape theory and how it is applied in studies of clusters, biomolecules and glasses. Beautifully illustrated in full color, the volume is geared to graduate students as well as professionals.

Recenzje

' … Wales' book defines a whole new subject, even more - a whole new field, and at the same time presents its state of the art description … a superb and laudable achievement, and I believe it will represent a resource on the subject of PES for years to come … I can certainly recommend it as an exhaustive guide and treasure trove of resources in the fascinating worlds of PES … a first class achievement … in many respects a beautiful, well conceived and most informative book. It moves elegantly and engagingly through various fields of theoretical physics, physical chemistry and molecular biology to expose and explain the unifying workings of the potential energy surfaces and along the way finds an elegant and meaningful connection, on a most fundamental level, between the worlds of nano and bioscience in a way hardly attempted before.' Journal of Statistical Physics

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The Born–Oppenheimer approximation and normal modes; 3. Symmetry considerations; 4. Features of the landscape; 5. Describing the landscape; 6. Exploring the landscape; 7. Properties of the landscape; 8. Clusters; 9. Biomolecules; 10. Glasses and supercooled liquids.