Rufus Ritchie, A Gentleman and a Scholar

Rufus Ritchie, a Gentleman and a Scholar, Volume 80 in the Advances in Quantum Chemistry series, celebrates the life and work of Rufus Ritchie, one of the great physicists and gentlemen of the past 100 years. Sections cover Inelastic electron excitation of transition metal atoms on metal surfaces: Kondo resonances as a function of the crystal field splitting, Role of local field effects in surface plasmon characteristics, Correlated model atom in a time-dependent external field: Sign effect in the energy shift, Dipole-bound states contributions to the formation of anionic carbonitriles in the ISM: a multireference approach for C3N, and much more.

Presents surveys of current topics in this rapidly-developing field that has emerged at the cross section of the historically established areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biologyFeatures detailed reviews written by leading international researchers

1. Inelastic electron excitation of transition metal atoms and Kondo resonances Fernando Flores, Guillermo Chiappe, Enrique V. Anda and Edith C. Goldberg 2. Correlated model atom in a time-dependent external field: Sign effect in the energy shift Istvan Nagy and Inigo Aldazabal 3. Dipole-bound states contribution to the formation of anionic carbonitriles in the ISM: Calculations using multireference methods for C₃N⁻ Stanka V. Jerosimić, Milan Z. Milovanović, Roland Wester and Franco A. Gianturco 4. Energy loss of charged particles in collision with atoms and surfaces Karoly Tokesi 5. Bound and continuum state contributions to dipole oscillator strength sum rules: Total and orbital mean excitation energies for cations of C, F, Si, and Cl Remigio Cabrera Trujillo, Stephan P.A. Sauer, John R. Sabin and Jens Oddershede 6. Collective electronic excitations on the MgB2(0001) surfaces Vyacheslav M. Silkin, Evgenii V. Chulkov and Pedro M. Echenique 7. Electronic and crystal structure of the Pt(111)-(2 × 2)-K and Cu(111)-(2 × 2)-K systems Yury M. Koroteev and Evgenii V. Chulkov 8. Electron-phonon interaction on the (110) surface of Ag and Cu Irina Yu. Sklyadneva, Rolf Heid, Klaus-Peter Bohnen and Evgenii V. Chulkov 9. Calculation of mean excitation energies Stephan P.A. Sauer, John R. Sabin and Jens Oddershede 10. Studies of threshold effects in the interaction of protons, electrons, and positrons in matter using dielectric models Claudio D. Archubi and Néstor R. Arista 11. Plasmon excitation by charged particles in solids, surfaces, and nanostructures: Following the trail of R.H. Ritchie Nestor R. Arista, Juana L. Gervasoni, Silvina Segui, Isidro Villo-Perez and Raul O. Barrachina 12. Classical theory of hyperthermal gas scattering from surfaces Wayne W. Hayes and Joseph R. Manson