Correlation functions quantum mechanical correction

Equation (C3.5.3) shows tire VER lifetime can be detennined if tire quantum mechanical force-correlation Emotion is computed. However, it is at present impossible to compute tliis Emotion accurately for complex systems. It is straightforward to compute tire classical force-correlation Emotion using classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Witli tire classical force-correlation function, a quantum correction factor Q is needed 5,... 

Comparisons of the correlation functions calculated quantum mechanically and semiclassically, like those presented in Fig. 6.2, show that the correction due to the dipole moment gradient included in (6.34) sometimes improves the accuracy especially for short propagation times. This correction affects not only the amplitude of the correlation function oscillation, but also its frequency and distortions due to the presence of high harmonics in the spectrum. An analysis of the spectrum of the correlation function indicates that including this correction in the formula enables additional quantum effects to be taken into account. 

However, as several authors have pointed out (5,7,82), it is incorrect to directly replace the quantum mechanical correlation function with its classical analog because the detailed balance condition will not be met. Therefore, the correct expression is... 

A second problem with the GME derived from the contraction over a Liouville equation, either classical or quantum, has to do with the correct evaluation of the memory kernel. Within the density perspective this memory kernel can be expressed in terms of correlation functions. If the linear response assumption is made, the two-time correlation function affords an exhaustive representation of the statistical process under study. In Section III.B we shall see with a simple quantum mechanical example, based on the Anderson localization, that the second-order approximation might lead to results conflicting with quantum mechanical coherence. 

Solution of KS equations at the level of local or gradient-corrected density functionals always requires calculation of mathematically complicated integrals. Unlike the exchange integrals of Hartree Fock quantum mechanics, which can be solved analytically for Gaussians, the density functional exchange and correlation approach introduces integrals which are usually more involved than the matrix element < 4>iy-lZci >= C / 1(r)/>1/3(r)< (r)d3r. 

Semiempirical approaches to quantum chemistry are thus characterized by the use of empirical parameters in a quantum mechanical framework. In this sense, many current methods contain semiempirical features. For example, some high-level at initio treatments of thermochemistry employ empirical corrections for high-order correlation effects, and several advanced density functionals include a substantial number of empirical parameters that are fitted against experimental data. We shall not cover such approaches here, but follow the conventional classification by considering only semiempirical methods that are based on molecular orbital (MO) theory and make use of integral approximations and parameters already at the MO level. 

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