Quantum Science

This book focuses on recent topics of quantum science in both physics and chemistry. Until now, quantum science has not been fully discussed from the interdisciplinary vantage points of both physics and chemistry. This book, however, is written not only for theoretical physicists and chemists, but also for experimentalists in the fields of physical chemistry and condensed matter physics, as collaboration and interplay between construction of quantum theory, and experimentation has become more important. Tips for starting new types of research projects will be found in an understanding of cutting-edge quantum science.

In Part I, quantum electronic structures are explained in cases of strongly correlated copper oxides and heavy elements. In Part II, quantum molecular dynamics is investigated by computational approaches and molecular beam experiments. In Part III, after lithium problem in big bang nucleosynthesis scenario is considered using supersymmetric standard model, quantum theories in atomic and molecular systems are reviewed. Finally, in Part IV, the development of quantum computational method is introduced.

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Taku Onishi is a Japanese scientist. He graduated from the Faculty of Science, Osaka University, Japan, in 1998, and was awarded his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry of Osaka University in 2003. He was appointed to a permanent position at the Faculty of Engineering, Mie University, Japan, in 2003. He has been a guest researcher at the Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, Norway, since 2010. His research covers a variety of fields such as quantum chemistry, computational chemistry, quantum physics, and materials science. He has published the well-received Springer books Quantum Computational Chemistry (2018) and Theoretical Chemistry for Advanced Nanomaterials (2020). He was the chair of a quantum science symposium in the International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering conference in 2020.