Cluster expansion energies

Analogous remarks hold for the four-body component AE(ABCD Rabcd) of the cluster expansion energy, as well as for the five- and six- body components, the definition of... 

This characteristic energy naturally shows up in the cluster expansion. Note that W can become large even for /3e[Pg.53]

It is of some note that many of the models may be (and often were) obtained by-passing the derivational approach here. Basically each model may be viewed as represented by the first terms in a graph-theoretic cluster expansion [80]. Once the space on which the model to be represented is specified, the interactions in the orthogonal-basis cases are just the simplest additive few-site operators possible. For the nonorthogonal bases the overlaps are just the simplest multiplicative operators possible, while the associated Hamiltonian operators are the simplest associated derivative operators. These ideas lead [80] to proper size-consistency and size extensivity. Similar sorts of ideas apply in developing wavefunction Ansatze or ground-state energy expansions for the various models. 

In this section we shall discuss an approach which is neither variational nor perturba-tional. This approach also has its origin in nuclear physics and was introduced to quantum chemistry by Sinanoglu47, It is based on a cluster expansion of the wave function. A systematic method for the calculation of cluster expansion components of the exact wave function was developed by C ek48 The characteristic feature of this approach is the expansion of the wave function as a linear combination of Slater determinants. Formally, this expansion is similar to the ordinary Cl expansion. The cluster expansion, however, gives us not only the physical insight of the correlation energy but it also shows the connections between the variational approaches (Cl) and the perturbational approaches (e.g. MB-RSPT). 

In Eq. (54) there appears a new Hamiltonian containing the additional Hamiltonians HM and H 2 The latter contain two- and three-particle operators, respectively. Although the new Hamiltonian operates to the right over the single Slater determinant we have on the left the presence of the correlation term C2. For a Jastrow-type correlating factor C = n (l + 4>x ) the energy expression gives rise to a cluster expansion... 

Table 2 Results of Variational Localized-site Cluster expansions from either a Neel-state based ansatze or a Resonating Valence Bond ansatz. We notice that the lower level NSBA is unable of showing the dimerization of polyacetylene. rc is the critical bifurcation mean bond length, r and r2 are the optimized short and long bond distances (in A). E is the energy per carbon atom (in eV), taking the energy of the Neel state with 1.40 A equal bond lengths as zero of energy. NSB forth order perturbative and Dimer-covering second order perturbative (see Ref. 34), CEPA ab-initio estimate of Kpnig and Stollhoff [52], and the experimental results [46,47] for rx and r2 have been added for comparison.

We may recall that the desirability of ensuring size-extensivity for a closed-shell state was one of the principal motivations behind the formulation of the MBPT for the closed-shells. The linked cluster theorem of Bruckner/25/, Goldstone/26/ and Hubbard/27/, proving that each term in the perturbation series for energy can be represented by a linked (connected) diagram directly reflects the size-extensivity of the theory. Hubbard/27/ and Coester/30/ even pointed out immediately after the inception of MBPT/25,26/, that the size-extensivity is intimately related to a cluster expansion structure of the associated wave-operator that is not just confined only to perturbative theory. The corresponding non-perturbative scheme for the closed-shells was first described by Coester and Kummel/30,31/ in nuclear physics and this was transcribed to quantum chemistry... 

The 1inked-cluster theorem for energy, from the above analysis, is a consequence of the connectivity of T, and the exponential structure for ft. Size-extensivity is thus seen as a consequence of cluster expansion of the wave function. Specfic realizations of the situation are provided by the Bruckner—Goldstone MBPT/25,26/, as indicated by Hubbard/27/, or in the non-perturbative CC theory as indicated by Coester/30,31/, Kummel/317, Cizek/32/, Paldus/33/, Bartlett/21(a)/ and others/30-38/. There are also the earlier approximate many-electron theories like CEPA/47/, Sinanoglu s Many Electron Theory/28/ or the Cl methods with cluster correction /467. 

The next set of open-shell cluster expansion theories to appear on the scene emphasized the size-extensivity feature (al), and all of them were designed to compute energy differences with a fixed number of valence electrons. Several related theories may be described here - (i) the level-shift function approach in a time-dependent CC framework by Monkhorst/56/ and later generalizations by Dalgaard and Monkhorst/57/, also by Takahasi and Paldus/105/, (ii) the CC-based linear response theory by Mukherjee and Mukherjee/58/, and generalized later by Ghosh et a 1/59.60.107/,(iii)the closely related formulations by Nakatsuji/50,52/ and Emrich/62/ and (iv) variational theories by Paldus e t a I / 54/ and Saute et. al /55/ and by Nakatsuji/50/. 

In this section, we shall motivate towards the need for a Fock-space approach to generate core-valence extensive cluster expansion theories (i.e., of type (a3)), introduced in Sec.2. Since we have to maintain size-extensivity of the energy... 

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