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	Teoria delle perturbazioni di Möller-Plesset	Teoria del Funzionale Densità
Campo	Calcolo quantistico	Calcolo quantistico
Famiglia	Machine learning	Machine learning
Anno di origine	1934	1965
Ideatore	Christian Möller and Milton Plesset	Walter Kohn
Tipo	Post-Hartree-Fock method	Electronic structure method
Fonte seminale	Möller, C., Plesset, M. S. (1934). Note on an approximation treatment for many-electron systems. Physical Review, 46, 618–622.	Kohn, W., Sham, L. J. (1965). Self-consistent equations including exchange and correlation effects. Physical Review, 140, A1133–A1138.
Alias	MP2, MP3, MP4	DFT, Kohn-Sham equations
Correlati	3	4
Sintesi	Möller-Plesset perturbation theory is a post-Hartree-Fock method that systematically corrects the HF reference by treating electron correlation as a perturbation. Introduced in 1934, MP theory provides increasingly accurate energy estimates (MP2, MP3, MP4, ...) by expanding the correlation energy in orders of perturbation.	Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a computational method for determining the properties of materials and molecules by modeling the ground state electron density. Developed by Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham in the 1960s, DFT reduces the complexity of quantum chemistry from tracking individual electron coordinates to optimizing the total electron density, enabling efficient simulations of large molecular and condensed-matter systems.