The study of quantum systems in chemistry and physics underpins many of the new emerging fields of science and technology in the early twenty-first century – nanotechnology, smart materials, drugs and so on.
The purpose of the Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics website is to provide a focus for chemists and physicists and others – with a common field of interest – the quantum mechanical many-body problem – and to foster collaboration at the fundamental level of innovative theory and conceptual development. Quantum mechanics provides a theoretical foundation for our understanding of the structure and properties of atoms, molecules and the solid state in terms of their component particles, electrons and nuclei. This website establishes a virtual institute for the study of quantum systems by scientists working in this interdisciplinary area at geographically distributed locations.