Configuration interaction doubly excited configurations

The amount of computation for MP2 is determined by the partial transformation of the two-electron integrals, what can be done in a time proportionally to m (m is the number of basis functions), which is comparable to computations involved in one step of CID (doubly-excited configuration interaction) calculation. To save some computer time and space, the core orbitals are frequently omitted from MP calculations. For more details on perturbation theory please see A. Szabo and N. Ostlund, Modem Quantum Chemistry, Macmillan, New York, 1985. 

Equation [1] is an internally contracted configuration space, doubly excited with respect to the CAS reference function 0) = G4SSCF) one or two of the four indices p,q,r,s must be outside the active space. The functions of Eq. [1] are linear combinations of CFs and span the entire configuration space that interacts with the reference function. Labeling the compound index pqrs as (i or v, we can write the first-order equation as... 

Here the first two determinants are the determinantal form of the Heitler-London function (eq 1), and represent a purely covalent interaction between the atoms. The remaining determinants represent zwitterionic structures, H-H+ and H+H, and contribute 50% to the wave function. The same constitution holds for any interatomic distance. This weight of the ionic structures is clearly too much at equilibrium distance, and becomes absurd at infinite separation where the ionic component is expected to drop to zero. Qualitatively, this can be corrected by including a second configuration where both electrons occupy the antibonding orbital, Gu, i.e. the doubly excited configuration. The more elaborate wave function T ci is shown in eq. 4, where C and C2 are coefficients of the two MO configurations ... 

SDCI singly and doubly excited configuration interaction... 

The index k in eqn, (5,31) labels singly and doubly excited configurations within the frame of systems A and B (vide infra for further specification), and (H. - H., ) are the respective excitation ener-gies. represents the Coulomb electrostatic interaction energy (hereafter denoted as between the nuclear and electronic charge... 

Fig. 3.4. Example of a Lu-Fano graph involving more than two interacting series, and consequently more than one avoided crossing. This particular graph occurs in the spectrum of Yb, and involves doubly-excited configurations, discussed in chapter 7. The number of series in the graph is equal to the number of intersections of the curves with the diagonal, i.e. 3 in this case (Kaenders and Connerade - unpublished).

The comparison of the calculated spectra of the free ions and the ones in the crystal is not straightforward. Indeed, in the crystal, the presence of the first coordination shell increases the number of electrons and basis functions in the calculations, resulting in a blow-up of the Cl expansion, mainly due to the generated doubly-excited configurations. One should bare in mind that this increase is about six time as fast in double group symmetries as in the non-relativistic symmetry. In a non effective Hamiltonian method, the only way to keep the size of the DGCI matrix to an affordable size of few million configurations, is to cut down the number of correlated electrons. This may essentially deteriorate the quality of electron correlation as the contributions of the spin-orbit interaction... 

Pacchioni and Koutecky [77] studied the interaction of CO with several Pd clusters using multireference doubly excited configuration interaction (MRD Cl) procedures. 

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