Hendrik J. Monkhorst
Professor of Physics and Chemistry

Quantum Theory Project
Department of Chemistry and Physics
University of Florida

VOICE: (352) 392-1597

EMAIL: monkhorst@qtp.ufl.edu

HOMEPAGE: http://www.qtp.ufl.edu/~monkhorst

Research Interests

Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor for Green Nuclear Power

A novel fusion reactor concept based on a cylindrically shaped plasma inside of which are a fast proton beam and a slow boron-11 beam with their relative velocity tuned to a nuclear resonance, producing three helium-4 nuclei and a lot of energy. Click on link for pictures, text and more links.

Polymer Superconductivity

A joint experimental/theoretical search for the proper electronic and structural conditions of conductive polymers for superconductivity likely to occur; development of the many-body tools in order to quantify the (super) conductive states.

Non-adiabatic Molecular Physics & Molecular Coupled Cluster Method.

Further development and implementation of the Molecular Coupled-Cluster method; chemical physics without the Born Oppenheimer approximation. Time-dependent formulation for scattering and half-collisions (many-body wavepacket dynamics).

Electrons in Extended Systems.

Ab Initio Electronic Band Calculations Starting from accurate Hartree wavefunctions and energies, and including exchange and RPA-level correlation with Green's function techniques. Extensive use of momentum and Fourier transform methods deal with conditional convergence problems and the Hartree Fock pathologies. For a recent presentation on this approach, strongly advocating the use of the GW method, click here. (Microsoft Internet Explorer is needed).

Representive Publications

1. N. Rostoker, M. Binderbauer, and H.J.Monkhorst, "Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor," Science, 278, 1419 (1997)

2. S. Jonsell and H.J. Monkhorst, "Effect from Changes in the Final State Spectrum on the Neutrino Mass Determination fromT2 Beta Decay Experiments," Phys. Rev. Letters 76, 4476 (1996).

3. H.J.Monkhorst, "Chemical Physics without the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation: the Molecular Coupled-Cluster method," Phys.Rev. A36, 1544 (1987).

4. K.Wenzel, K. Szalewicz, J.G. Zabolitzky, B. Jeziorski, and H.J. Monkhorst, "Atomic and Molecular Correlation Energies with Explicitly Correlated Gaussian Geminals. V. Cartesian Gaussian Geminals and the Neon Atom," J. Chem. Phys. 85, 3964 (1986).

5. H.J. Monkhorst and J.D. Pack, "On Special Points for Brillouin Zone Integrations," Phys. Rev. B 13, 5188 (1976).