Recent Advances in the Quantum Theory of Polymers

Solid-state polymerization techniques.- Experimental studies of polydiacetylene : Model conjugated polymers.- One dimensional organic highly conducting systems.- Ab initio techniques for ground state calculations on polymers.- Group theory in band structure calculations of polymers.- Importance of the long-range contributions in a polymer computation.- Multipole expansion technique as a tool for solving long-range problems in polymers.- Localized orbitals techniques for ground state calculations on polymers.- Ab initio calculations on polyyne, polyene and polymethineimine.- Density functional formalism and correlation in semiconducting solids and polymers.- Correlation in polymers and interactions between polymers.- Pairing, gap equations, and instabilities.- Recent advances in the interaction of radiation with matter in ordered molecular solids.- Non-empirical atomic potentials for ground state calculations of polymers.- On the strategy of transport calculations in conducting polymers.- AB initio study of phonon spectra of solids.- Vibrational spectra of polyatomic molecules and polymers.- A model for the diamagnetic anomaly in CuCl.- Relations between esca and valence energy band structures of stereoregular polymers.- Effects of disorder on the transport properties of polymers.- Disordered systems.- Disordered systems : From one to three dimensions.- Quantum mechanical studies of polymers : Present status and perspectives.