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MM: Fachverband Metall- und Materialphysik

MM 56: Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory: Focus on Topology and Transport V

MM 56.4: Talk

Thursday, March 10, 2016, 15:45–16:00, H24

Explicitly correlated self consistent field theory — •Christian Lasar and Thorsten Klüner — Universität Oldenburg

Explicitly correlated correlation methods are an interesting field of current research since they are able to drastically improve the otherwise slow basis set convergence of conventional correlation methods. Therefore, chemical accuracy can be achieved with rather small basis sets.[1] The new correlation method presented in this contribution has already been developed for two-electron systems a long time ago[2]. We present the generalization of this ansatz to N-electron systems.

The basic idea is to augment a single slater-determinant with an explicitly correlated prefactor which then takes care of the correlation effects and the basis set convergence. Another interpretation of this ansatz would be a contracted CISD with orbital optimization in a complete basis set. The contraction is achieved by the explicitly correlated prefactor whose choice therefore defines the possible accuracy of the method. In principle, the generalization to any pair method i.e. CCSD and MP2 will be possible.

The big advantage of this kind of ansatz for the wave function is the drastic reduction of matrix elements needed for the optimization of the wave function. As a result, the presented method will be applicable to large molecules.

[1] Chem. Rev. 112, p. 4 (2012) [2] J. Chem. Phys. 99, p. 8830 (1993)