Friday, November 12, 2010

Beyond Born-Oppenheimer

This morning I started to read a fascinating paper by Henrik Monkhorst, 

Chemical physics without the Born-Oppenheimer approximation: The molecular coupled-cluster method.
It begins discussing a controversy I did not know about which 

Later there is a fascinating discussion of the coupled cluster (CC) method. Note the superlatives in the last sentence.

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