Quantum chemistry and the quantum revolution

Sam Schweber

Gal BenPorat

pp. 41-66

in: Theodore Arabatzis, Jürgen Renn, Ana Simoes (eds), Relocating the history of science, Berlin, Springer, 2015

Abstract

The recent advances in the use of density functional theory (DFT) in quantum chemistry and in material sciences are considered from the perspective of the quantum theoretical description of the microscopic world. A viewpoint is presented on how to think about the quantum revolution and how to fit the DFT developments into it.