Hamiltonian, Moller-Plesset partition

The spin free electronic Hamiltonian of the stem,, is partitioned according to the usual Moller-Plesset form (129),... 

If we except the Density Functional Theory and Coupled Clusters treatments (see, for example, reference [1] and references therein), the Configuration Interaction (Cl) and the Many-Body-Perturbation-Theory (MBPT) [2] approaches are the most widely-used methods to deal with the correlation problem in computational chemistry. The MBPT approach based on an HF-SCF (Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field) single reference taking RHF (Restricted Hartree-Fock) [3] or UHF (Unrestricted Hartree-Fock ) orbitals [4-6] has been particularly developed, at various order of perturbation n, leading to the widespread MPw or UMPw treatments when a Moller-Plesset (MP) partition of the electronic Hamiltonian is considered [7]. The implementation of such methods in various codes and the large distribution of some of them as black boxes make the MPn theories a common way for the non-specialist to tentatively include, with more or less relevancy, correlation effects in the calculations. 

In practical applications of the sapt approach to interactions of many-elect ron systems, one has to use the many-body version of sapt, which includes order-by-order the intramonomer correlation effects. The many-body SAPT is based on the partitioning of the total Hamiltonian as H = F+V+W, where the zeroth-order operator F = Fa + Fb is the sum of the Fock operators for the monomers A and B. The intermolecular interaction operator V = H — Ha — Hb is the difference between the Hamiltonians of interacting and noninteracting systems, and the intramonomer correlation operator W = Wa + Wb is the sum of the Moller-Plesset fluctuation potentials of the monomers Wx — Hx — Fx, X — A or B. The interaction operator V is taken in the non-expanded form, i.e., it is not approximated by the multipole expansion. The interaction energy components of Eq. (1) are now given in the form of a double perturbation series,... 

Within the Moller-Plesset (MP) partitioning [14] of the Hamiltonian into the unperturbed Hamiltonian and the perturbation the energy denominators will involve the differences in the orbital energies... 

Some of the above reasons for preferring the energy derivative over the expectation value will only hold for variational wavefunctions. However, Diercksen et have argued that this technique is more suitable with MBPT methods as well. The techniques developed in analytic derivative methods can also be applied to the calculation of MBPT properties. In Moller-Plesset theory (the simplest form of MBPT), the zeroth-order wavefunction is SCF and the Hamiltonian is partitioned so that... 

Electron correlation was treated by the CIPSI multi-reference perturbation algorithm ([24,25] and refs, therein). The Quasi Degenerate Perturbation Theory (QDPT) version of the method was employed, with symmetrisation of the effective hamiltonian [26], and the Moller-Plesset baricentric (MPB) partition of the C.I. hamiltonian. 

Accuracy of the SLG approximation can be improved by perturbation theory. Second quantization provides us a powerful tool in developing a many-body theory suitable to derive interbond delocalization and correlation effects. The first question concerns the partitioning of the Hamiltonian to a zeroth-order part and perturbation. LFsing a straightforward generalization of the Moller-Plesset (1934) partitioning, the zeroth-order Hamiltonian is chosen as the sum of the effective intrabond Hamiltonians ... 

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