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What are some important approximations, especially those that are state-of-the-art, used to approximate the many-body dynamics of atoms and molecules in the semiclassical regime? To be clear, I'm not really looking for semiclassical approximations for time-independent Hamiltonian systems. Are there any modern reference-level texts/monographs or review articles that develop the mathematical theory and its applications for said models?

David Z
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    Hi Christopher - book recommendations aren't really appropriate for Stack Exchange sites. We have some which are preserved from the early days of the site, listed in the book recommendation master thread, which you could have a look at. – David Z Apr 14 '13 at 22:56
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    I find that interpretation of the function of SE to be a little strange. In my opinion, the primary role of an academic forum should be to direct people to references or papers, especially when it comes to research-level subjects as in my case. – Christopher A. Wong Apr 14 '13 at 23:10
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    Hi Christopher, if you diagree with this recent change in policies, which disallows questions about any study material and references (papers), instigated by David Zaslavsky and a few other powerful people without the whole community having a saying about it, you should have a look at this meta thread and vote accordingly. There are some people who disagree with these new policies, but they are not powerful enough. Study material/reference questions should exactly be allowed for the site to be useful for students and researchers. – Dilaton Apr 14 '13 at 23:11
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    @DavidZaslavsky this is a research-level reference request questions, he is not specifically asking about books. Your enforcing of new policies which are not supported by the whole community is not right and now you are even shooting down research-level reference questions, this is definitively not cool. The original reference-request tag was right, I dont know why Qmechanic has exchanged it. – Dilaton Apr 14 '13 at 23:24
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    @Christopher perhaps so, but this is not an academic forum. It's a Q&A site, for focused, conceptual questions about physics. Recommendation questions and other similar questions which are only meant to accumulate lists don't work well here, so we don't allow them. – David Z Apr 14 '13 at 23:29
  • Then my solution will be to phrase my question as an actual question. – Christopher A. Wong Apr 14 '13 at 23:32
  • @DavidZaslavsky no, this is not a list eithter, a few well defined research level references are enough to answer it. You are wrong and misuse the list issue again to close questions just for the heck of it. – Dilaton Apr 14 '13 at 23:33
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    @Christopher sure, if you edit this to ask a conceptual question rather than seek a resource recommendation, I'll be happy to reopen it. (Or you could just make a new post, since converting this into a conceptual question would probably drastically change what it's asking.) – David Z Apr 14 '13 at 23:37
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    @Crazy Buddy: Please take a moment to read the tag description for 'book' tags and 'ref.-req.' tags. It is irrelevant that OP casually uses the word 'ref'. – Qmechanic Apr 15 '13 at 15:24
  • @Qmechanic: Sorry for the confusion I've caused. I'll keep that in mind. I haven't read the description for [tag:books]. And, thanks for mentioning ;-) – Waffle's Crazy Peanut Apr 15 '13 at 15:35
  • Comment to the post (v10): The actual physics question in the post is a list question. On top of this, there is a res. recom. question, which is also a list question. – Qmechanic Mar 01 '16 at 17:02

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