| Acronym | Meaning |
| BO | Born Oppenheimer |
| IRED | Ion Radiation-enhanced Diffusion |
| AIMDSA | Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulated Annealing |
| NSCF | Non-self-consistent Field |
| VERI | Visual-empirical Region Of Influence |
| CD | Critical Dimension |
| AQCC | Averaged Quadratic Coupled-cluster |
| CTC | Charge-transfer Complex |
| RS-HFPT | Rayleigh-Schroedinger Hartree-Fock Perturbation Theory |
| NEMS | Nanoelectromechanical Systems |