Hamiltonian in second-quantization form

It is easiest to see this relationship by writing the Hamiltonian in second quantized form ... 

Contents Introduction. - Concept of Creation and Annihilation Operators. -Particle Number Operators. - Second Quantized Representation of Quantum Mechanical Operators. - Evaluation of Matrix Elements. - Advantages of Second Quantization. - Illustrative Examples. - Density Matrices. -Connection to Bra and Ket Formalism. - Using Spatial Orbitals. - Some Model Hamiltonians in Second Quantized Form. - The Brillouin Theorem. -Many-Body Perturbation Theory. -Second Quantization for Nonorthogonal Orbitals. - Second Quantization and Hellmann-Feynman Theorem. - Inter-molecular Interactions. - Quasiparticle Transformations. Miscellaneous Topics Related to Second Quantization -Problem Solutions. - References -Index. 

Some Model Hamiltonians in Second Quantized Form... 

These ideas can be applied to electrochemical reactions, treating the electrode as one of the reacting partners. There is, however, an important difference electrodes are electronic conductors and do not posses discrete electronic levels but electronic bands. In particular, metal electrodes, to which we restrict our subsequent treatment, have a wide band of states near the Fermi level. Thus, a model Hamiltonian for electron transfer must contains terms for an electronic level on the reactant, a band of states on the metal, and interaction terms. It can be conveniently written in second quantized form, as was first proposed by one of the authors [Schmickler, 1986] ... 

The Dirac-Coulomb-Breit Hamiltonian H qb 1 rewritten in second-quantized form [6, 16] in terms of normal-ordered products of spinor creation and annihilation operators r+s and r+s+ut, ... 

The PPP Hamiltonian can then be written in second quantized form as... 

This general notation is deceptively simple. The bra is an excited determinant. There is an equation for each excited determinant, and each level of excitation leads to a different type of equation. Furthermore, the equations are all coupled, and they are non-linear in the amplitudes. However, they may be formulated in a quasilinear manner [27], and they have been solved for a wide range of CC schemes. The operator HN is the Hamiltonian written in second-quantized form minus the energy of the reference determinant, i.e. HN = H— < 0 /7 0 >. The subscript C restricts the operator product of HN and eT to connected terms. Once the CC equations have been solved, the CC correlation energy can be calculated from... 

The first two terms are the molecular Hamiltonian and the radiation field Hamiltonian. The molecular Schrodinger equation for the first term in (5.2) is assumed solved, with known eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Solutions for the second term in (3.4) in vacuo are taken in second-quantized form. Hint can be taken in minimal-coupling form (5.3) allowing for the variation of the radiation field over the extent of the molecule,... 

A unique feature of the occupation number representation is that the number of electrons does not appear in the definition of the Hamiltonian operator in this form as it does in the wavefunction form. This is because all of the occupation information resides in the bras and kets. This is true for any operator in second quantized form. This feature is used to advantage in theories that allow the number of particles to change, and to a more limited extent in the calculation of electron affinities and ionization potentials. It is less important to the MCSCF method but it is useful to remember that the bras and kets contain all of the occupation information. Other details of the wavefunction, such as the AO and MO basis set information, are included in the integrals that are used as expansion coefficients in the second quantized representation of the operator. 

The Hamiltonian is assumed to be spin-independent. It can then be written, in second quantized form, in terms of the spin-averaged excitation operators (the generators of the unitary group )... 

Because lO, A ) and lAT, + 1) contain different numbers of electrons, it is convenient and most common in developing EOM theories of EAs to express the electronic Hamiltonian H in second-quantized form [13] ... 

To make further progress, the zero-order Hamiltonian and the perturbation must be written in second quantized form. Recall that the annihilation operator, a and the creation operator, a], satisfy the following anticommutation relations... 

In second quantized form the zero-order Hamiltonian may be written in terms of creation and annihilation field operators in the form... 

The general Hamiltonian of a molecule interacting with an external field in second quantization form reads "... 

In (4.28) and (4.30), we have achieved our aim of expressing the Hamiltonian in the appropriate second quantized form for acting on the state vectors in Fock space. 

Operators corresponding to physical quantities, in second-quantization representation, are written in a very simple form. In the quantum mechanics of identical particles we normally have to deal with two types of operators symmetric in the coordinates of all particles. The first type includes N-particle operators that are the sum of one-particle operators. An example of such an operator is the Hamiltonian of a system of noninteracting electrons (e.g. the first two terms in (1.15)). The second type are iV-particle operators that are the sum of two-particle operators (e.g. the energy operator for the electrostatic interaction of electrons - the last term in (1.15)). In conventional representations these operators are... 

This hamiltonian has cylindrical symmetry and may be used to introduce trigonal or tetragonal anisotropy, depending on whether the principal z axis is oriented along a C3 or C4 symmetry axis. The second-quantized form of the intra-r29 part of this operator is given in Eq. 39. 

Finally, in the second quantized form the tight-binding Hamiltonian is... 

For applications the tunneling Hamiltonian (54) should be formulated in the second quantized form. We introduce creation and annihilation Schrodinger operators c fc, cRk, (hq, cRq. Using the usual rules we obtain... 

One of the most important concepts of quantum chemistry is the Slater determinant. Most quantum chemical treatments are made just over Slater determinants. Nevertheless, in many problems the formulation over Slater determinants is not very convenient and the derivation of final expressions is very complicated. The advantage of second quantization lies in the fact that this technique permits us to arrive at the same expressions in a considerably simpler way. In second quantization a Slater determinant is represented by a product of creation and annihilation operators. As will be shown below, the Hamiltonian can also be expressed by creation and annihilation operators and thus the eigenvalue problem is reduced to the manipulation of creation and annihilation operators. This manipulation can be done diagrammatically (according to certain rules which will be specified later) and from the diagrams formed one can write down the final mathematical expression. In the traditional way a Slater determinant I ) is specified by one-electron functions as follows ... 

These moves allow us to write the electronic Hamiltonian in the second quantized form with respect to the basis of (spin-)orbitals ok (x) introduced above ... 

The one- and two-electron integrals appearing in the second-quantized form of the Hamiltonian carry all information about the specific features of the quantum system. The one-electron integrals are defined as... 

The formulation of the relativistic CASPT2 method is almost the same as the nonrelativistic CASPT2 in the second quantized form. In this section, firstly we express the relativistic Hamiltonian in the second quantized form, and then, we give a summary of the CASPT2 method [11, 12],... 

The total electronic Hamiltonian (6.1) is rewritten in the second quantized form... 

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