Computational studies Mpller-Plesset perturbation theory

Nonadditive effects in open-shell clusters have been investigated only recently and relatively little information is available on their importance and physical origin. From the theoretical point of view, open-shell systems are more difficult to study since the conventional, size-consistent computational tools of the theory of intermolecular forces, like the Mpller-Plesset perturbation theory, coupled cluster theory, or SAPT, are less suitable or less developed for applications to open-shell systems than to closed-shell ones. Moreover, there are many types of qualitatively different open-shell states, exhibiting different behavior and requiring different theoretical treatments. 

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Accounting for relativistic effects in computational organotin studies becomes complicated, because Hartree-Fock (HF), density functional theory (DFT), and post-HF methods such as n-th order Mpller-Plesset perturbation (MPn), coupled cluster (CC), and quadratic configuration interaction (QCI) methods are non-relativistic. Relativistic effects can be incorporated in quantum chemical methods with Dirac-Hartree-Fock theory, which is based on the four-component Dirac equation. " Unformnately the four-component Flamiltonian in the all-electron relativistic Dirac-Fock method makes calculations time consuming, with calculations becoming 100 times more expensive. The four-component Dirac equation can be approximated by a two-component form, as seen in the Douglas-Kroll (DK) Hamiltonian or by the zero-order regular approximation To address the electron cor-... 

During the 1960s, Kelly [37-43] pioneered the application of what is today the most widely used approach to the description of correlation effects in atomic and molecular systems namely, the many-body perturbation theory [1,2,43 8]. The second-order theory using the Hartree-Fock model to provide a reference Hamiltonian is particularly widely used. This Mpller-Plesset (mp2) formalism combines an accuracy, which is adequate for many purposes, with computational efficiency allowing both the use of basis sets of the quality required for correlated studies and applications to larger molecules than higher order methods. 

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