Electron correlation Coulomb

This leads lu a very bad description of the H2 molecule at long iiiicinuclcai disianecs with the Haitree-Fock method. Indeed, for long internuclear distances, the Heitler-London function should dominate, because it corresponds to the (correct) dissociation limit (two ground-state hydrogen atoms). The trouble is that with fixed coefficients, the Hartree-Fock function overestimates the role of the ionic structure for long interatomic distances. Fig. 10.5 shows that the Heitler-London function describes the electron correlation (Coulomb hole), whereas the Haitree-Fock function does not. 

We may even consider electron correlation (Coulomb hole), either by allowing different orbitals for electrons of different spin, or considering a wave function expansion composed of electron diagrams with various occupations. 

The advantage of using electron density is that the integrals for Coulomb repulsion need be done only over the electron density, which is a three-dimensional function, thus scaling as. Furthermore, at least some electron correlation can be included in the calculation. This results in faster calculations than FIF calculations (which scale as and computations that are a bit more accurate as well. The better DFT functionals give results with an accuracy similar to that of an MP2 calculation. 

DFT methods compute electron correlation via general functionals of the electron density (see Appendix A for details). DFT functionals partition the electronic energy into several components which are computed separately the kinetic energy, the electron-nuclear interaction, the Coulomb repulsion, and an exchange-correlation term accounting for the remainder of the electron-electron interaction (which is itself... 

Since the coiTelation between opposite spins has both intra- and inter-orbital contributions, it will be larger than the correlation between electrons having the same spin. The Pauli principle (or equivalently the antisymmetry of the wave function) has the consequence that there is no intraorbital conelation from electron pairs with the same spin. The opposite spin correlation is sometimes called the Coulomb correlation, while the same spin correlation is called the Fermi correlation, i.e. the Coulomb correlation is the largest contribution. Another way of looking at electron correlation is in terms of the electron density. In the immediate vicinity of an electron, here is a reduced probability of finding another electron. For electrons of opposite spin, this is often referred to as the Coulomb hole, the corresponding phenomenon for electrons of the same spin is the Fermi hole. 

The hKs matrix is analogous to the Fock matrix in wave mechanics, and the one-electron and Coulomb parts are identical to the corresponding Fock matrix elements. The exchange-correlation part, however, is given in terms of the electron density, and possibly also involves derivatives of the density (or orbitals, as in the BR functional, eq. (6.25)). 

Next, let us explore the consequences of the charge of the electrons on the pair density. Here it is the electrostatic repulsion, which manifests itself through the l/r12 term in the Hamiltonian, which prevents the electrons from coming too close to each other. This effect is of course independent of the spin. Usually it is this effect which is called simply electron correlation and in Section 1.4 we have made use of this convention. If we want to make the distinction from the Fermi correlation, the electrostatic effects are known under the label Coulomb correlation. 

The next step to include electron-electron correlation more precisely historically was the introduction of the (somewhat misleading) so-called local- field correction factor g(q), accounting for statically screening of the Coulomb interaction by modifying the polarizability [4] ... 

Since two electrons of the same spin have a zero probability of occupying the same position in space simultaneously, and since t / is continuous, there is only a small probability of finding two electrons of the same spin close to each other in space, and an increasing probability of finding them an increasingly far apart. In other words the Pauli principle requires electrons with the same spin to keep apart. So the motions of two electrons of the same spin are not independent, but rather are correlated, a phenomenon known as Fermi correlation. Fermi correlation is not to be confused with the Coulombic correlation sometimes referred to without its qualifier simply as correlation . Coulombic correlation results from the Coulombic repulsion between any two electrons, regardless of spin, with the consequent loss of independence of their motion. The Fermi correlation is in most cases much more important than the Coulomb correlation in determining the electron density. 

A great deal more could be said about models - to understand behavior like strong correlation, Coulomb blockade, and actual line shapes, it is necessary to use a number of empirical parameters, and a quite sophisticated form of density functional theory that deals with both static and dynamic correlation at a high level. Often this can be done only within a very simple representation of the electrons - something like the Hubbard model [51-53], which is very common in this situation. 

Further, if the wave function depends also on the electron spins, spin variables over all electrons should also be integrated we will see this below, in the calculation of exchange hole. The expression in the curly brackets above is exactly the XC hole PxCM(r, r ) defined in Equation 7.17. A comparison with Equation 7.19a shows that adding the hole to the density is similar to subtracting the density of one electron p(r )/N from it. The hole thus represents a deficit of one electron from the density. This is easily verified by integrating p tM(V, r ) over the volume dr, which gives a value of — 1. However, the structure of the hole is not simple and this is because of the motion of different electrons correlated due to the Pauli exclusion principle and the Coulomb interaction between them. Finally we note that the product p(r)p cM(r, r ) is symmetric with respect to an exchange in the variables... 

The density functional theory (DFT) [32] represents the major alternative to methods based on the Hartree-Fock formalism. In DFT, the focus is not in the wavefunction, but in the electron density. The total energy of an n-electron system can in all generality be expressed as a summation of four terms (equation 4). The first three terms, making reference to the noninteracting kinetic energy, the electron-nucleus Coulomb attraction and the electron-electron Coulomb repulsion, can be computed in a straightforward way. The practical problem of this method is the calculation of the fourth term Exc, the exchange-correlation term, for which the exact expression is not known. 

To illustrate the convergence of the FCI principal expansion with respect to short-range electron correlation, we have in Fig. 1.1 plotted the ground-state He wavefunction with both electrons fixed at a distance of 0.5 ao from the nucleus, as a function of the angle 0i2 between the position vectors ri and r2 of the two electrons. The thick grey lines correspond to the exact nonrelativistic wavefunction, whereas the FCI wavefunctions are plotted using black lines. Clearly, the description of the Coulomb cusp and more generally the Coulomb hole is poor in the orbital approximation. In particular, no matter how many terms we include in the FCI wavefunction, we will not be able to describe the nondifferentiability of the wavefunction at the point of coalescence. 

To improve on the wave function one has to accept that the standard multideterminantal expansion [Eq. (13.3)] is unsuitable for near-exact but practical approximations to the electronic wavefunction. The problem is dear from a simple analysis of the electronic Hamiltonian in Eq. (13.2) singularities in the Coulomb potential at the electron coalescence points necessarily lead to irregularities in first and higher derivatives of the exact wave function with respect to the interpartide coordinate, rj 2. The mathematical consequences of Coulomb singularities are known as electron-electron (correlation) and electron-nuclear cusp conditions and were derived by... 

Many electron systems such as molecules and quantum dots show the complex phenomena of electron correlation caused by Coulomb interactions. These phenomena can be described to some extent by the Hubbard model [76]. This is a simple model that captures the main physics of the problem and admits an exact solution in some special cases [77]. To calculate the entanglement for electrons described by this model, we will use Zanardi s measure, which is given in Fock space as the von Neumann entropy [78]. 

The total energy of a quantum-mechanical system can be written as the sum of its kinetic energy T, Coulombic energy Coul, and exchange and electron correlation contributions Ex and corr, respectively ... 

Transforming Eq. (1.4a), which exhibits a ri —rj dependence, at least partially into a rj I dependence is not obvious and deserves special attention for, a priori, electron Coulomb repulsion cannot be ignored. The energy contribution from the repulsive Coulombic term will be represented by t/. In transition metals and their oxides, electrons experience strong Coulombic repulsion due to spatial confinement in d and / orbitals. Spatial confinement and electronic correlations are closely related and because of the localization of electrons materials may become insulators. 

Meanwhile there is overwhelming evidence that the basic assumptions of the SSH model are not applicable to 7i-bonded conjugated polymers. Coulombic and electron-electron correlation effects are large while electron-phonon coupling is moderately weak. As a consequence, the spectroscopic features in this class of materials are characteristic of molecular rather than of inorganic crystalline semiconductor systems. There are a number of key experimental and theoretical results that support this assignment ... 

In order to develop such a broader view and a general qualitative understanding of charge transport, it is beneficial to consider the general one-electron Hamiltonian shown in (1). In this approach we follow the outline taken in [45]. This Hamiltonian assumes a low carrier density, and effects due to electron correlation or coulomb interaction are not considered. Despite these limitations, the following general one-electron Hamiltonian is useful to illustrate different limiting cases ... 

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