Cluster expansion methods wave-function

The cluster expansion methods are based on an excitation operator, which transforms an approximate wave function into the exact one according to the exponential ansatz... 

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 Section V we presented a method which is neither perturbational nor variational but which possesses certain features of both. Here, we shall make a few remarks on another promising method of this kind. Instead of the cluster expansion of the wave function this method is based on the idea of direct combination of the perturbation expansion with the variational method. 

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. 

In this section we shall discuss an approach which is neither variational nor perturbational. This approach has its origin in nuclear physics and was introduced to quantum chemistry by Sinanoglu, It is based on a cluster expansion of the wave function. A systematic method for calculation of cluster expansion components of the exact wave function was developed by CiSek. The characteristic feature... 

Sinanoglu was the first who suggested a practical method for calculating the correlation energy based on the cluster expansion of the wave function. By the approximate treatment of the problem (4,42) he arrived for the function... 

As in the ordinary EOMCC theory, in the EOMXCC method we solve the electronic Schrodinger equation (1) assuming that the excited states are represented by Eq. (7). We use the exponential representation of the ground-state wave function I S o), Eq. (8), but no longer assume that the cluster components Tn result from standard SRCC calculations (see below). The many-body expansions of the excitation operator Rk have the same form as in the ordinary EOMCC formalism. In particular, the three different forms of Rk discussed in the previous section [fi -E, R A, and REqs. (28), (30), and (26), respectively] are used to define the EE-EOMXCC, EA-EOMXCC, and IP-EOMXCC methods. As in the standard EOMCC method, by making suitable choices for the operators Qa, which define Rk, we can always extend the EOMXCC theory to other sectors of the Fock space. 

Cluster expansion representation of a wave-function built from a single determinant reference function [1] has been eminently successful in treating electron correlation effects with high accuracy for closed shell atoms and molecules. The cluster expansion approach provides size-extensive energies and is thus the method of choice for large systems. The two principal modes of cluster expansion developments in Quantum Chemistry have been the use of single reference many-body perturbation theory (SR-MBPT) [2] and the non-perturbative single reference Coupled Cluster (SRCC) theory [3,4]. While the former is computationally economical for the first few orders of the perturbation expansion... 

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