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Thus, the main relativistic effects are (1) the radical contraction and energetic stabilization of the s and p orbitals which in turn induce the radial expansion and energetic destabilization of the outer d and f orbitals, and (2) the well-known spin-orbit splitting. These effects will be pronounced upon going from As to Sb to Bi. Associated with effect (1), it is interesting to note that the Bi atom has a tendency to form compounds in which Bi is trivalent with the 6s 6p valence configuration. For this tendency of the 6s electron pair to remain formally unoxidized in bismuth compounds (i.e. core-like nature of the 6s electrons), the term inert pair effect or nonhybridization effect has been often used for a reasonable explanation. In this context, the relatively inert 4s pair of the As atom (compared with the 5s pair of Sb) may be ascribed to the stabilization due to the d-block contraction , rather than effect (1) . On the other hand, effect (2) plays an important role in the electronic and spectroscopic properties of atoms and molecules especially in the open-shell states. It not only splits the electronic states but also mixes the states which would not mix in the absence of spin-orbit interaction. As an example, it was calculated that even the ground state ( 2 " ) of Bij is 25% contaminated by Hg. In the Pauli Hamiltonian approximation there is one more relativistic effect called the Dawin term. This will tend to counteract partially the mass-velocity effect. 

In ECP theory an effective Hamiltonian approximation for the all-electron no-pair Hamiltonian Hnp is derived which (formally) only acts on the electronic states formed by nv valence electrons in the field of N frozen closed-shell atomic-like cores ... 

According to the Waugh theory, the average Hamiltonian approximating the... 

One of the main properties of interest in the field of conjugated polymers is the study of their dynamic nonlinear optical (NLO) response [112, 113]. It is a major challenge to obtain reliable dynamics of interacting electron systems. While for short oligomers there exist reasonable approximations for computing these properties [114], for longer chains even within model Hamiltonian approximations, the dynamic NLO coefficients had proved elusive. Yet most interest lies in the longer chains since the dynamic NLO properties exhibit dominant finite-size effects. 

Several common electronic structure methods, as well as the sub-hamiltonian approximation we are about to describe, can be viewed in this way. First, various density functional approximations may be viewed as improvements upon Thomas-Fermi (N— oo) theory obtained by reintroducing some eispects of discreteness (finite N). In particular, it is usually desirable to revert to a discrete sum for the kinetic part of the hamiltonian, and only treat the potential terms... 

In the supercell approach, the defect is instead enclosed in a sufficiently large unit cell and periodically repeated throughout space. A common problem with both approaches is the availability of high-level quantum-mechanical periodic solutions, because, as already mentioned, it is difficult to go beyond the one-electron Hamiltonian approximations (HF and DFT), at present. 

One may regard the Hamiltonian approximations as the most modern but, because of the complexity of the systems, these are applicable to only a very limited extent even today. A restriction to their successful use is that many simplifications are necessary. Their discussion lies beyond the scope of this book accordingly, only a few relevant references are made to the literature [Zw 65, Ku 66, Go 65, He 70, Ra 71b, St 72]. 

Gagliardi and Roos conducted a series of studies on actinide compounds. They follow a combined approach with DKH/AMFI Hamiltonians combined with CASSCF/CASPT2 for the energy calculation and an a posteriori added spin-orbit perturbation expanded in the space of nonrelativistic CSFs. This strategy aims to establish a balance of sufficiently accurate wave function and Hamiltonian approximations. Since the CASSCF wave function provides chemically reasonable but not highly accurate results (as witnessed, for instance, in the preceding section), it is combined with a quasi-relativistic Hamiltonian, namely the sc alar-relativistic DKH one-electron Hamiltonian. Additional effects — dynamic correlation and spin-orbit coupling — are then considered via perturbation theory. 

The approximation of the one-electron Hamiltonian is the next step in the framework of the one-electron approximation - the electron-electron interactions are excluded from the Hamiltonian. In solid-state theory the LCAO one-electron Hamiltonian approximation is known as the tight binding method. In molecular quantum chemistry the one-electron Hamiltonians of Huckel or Mulhken-Rtidenberg tjqses (see Chap. 6) were popular in the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s when the first-principles, Hartree-Fock LCAO calculations were practically impossible. 

Contents Experimental Basis of Quantum Theory. -Vector Spaces and Linear Transformations. - Matrix Theory. -- Postulates of Quantum Mechanics and Initial Considerations. - One-Dimensional Model Problems. - Angular Momentum. - The Hydrogen Atom, Rigid, Rotor, and the H2 Molecule. - The Molecular Hamiltonian. - Approximation Methods for Stationary States. - General Considerations for Many-Electron Systems. - Calculational Techniques for Many-Electron Systems Using Single Configurations. - Beyond Hartree-Fock Theory. 

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