Hamiltonian partitioning

MBPT(2) stands for second-order many-body perturbation theory, which is also known by the Hamiltonian partitioning scheme it employs, Moeller-Plesset (see references 68 and 69). 

Effective Dressed Hamiltonians Partitioning in the Enlarged Space... 

There is also an interesting alternative approach by Aharonov et al. [18], who start by using projection operators, n = n) n to partition the Hamiltonian... 

The full system Hamiltonian is partitioned so as to define an electronic Hamiltonian,... 

SISM for an Isolated Linear Molecule An efficient symplectic algorithm of second order for an isolated molecule was studied in details in ref. [6]. Assuming that bond stretching satisfactorily describes all vibrational motions for linear molecule, the partitioned parts of the Hamiltonian are... 

Rayleigh-Schrodinger many-body perturbation theory — RSPT). In this approach, the total Hamiltonian of the system is divided or partitioned into two parts a zeroth-order part, Hq (which has... 

For QM-MM methods it is assumed that the effective Hamiltonian can be partitioned into quantum and classical components by writing [9]... 

Unlike the trivial solution x = 0, the instanton, as well as the solution x(t) = x, is not the minimum of the action S[x(t)], but a saddle point, because there is at least one direction in the space of functions x(t), i.e. towards the absolute minimum x(t) = 0, in which the action decreases. Hence if we were to try to use the approximation of steepest descents in the path integral (3.13), we would get divergences from these two saddle points. This is not surprising, because the partition function corresponding to the unbounded Hamiltonian does diverge. 

The special case where only rotators are present, Np = 0, is of particular interest for the analysis of molecular crystals and will be studied below. Here we note that in the other limit, where only spherical particles are present, Vf = 0, and where only symmetrical box elongations are considered with boxes of side length S, the corresponding measure in the partition function (X Qxp[—/3Ep S, r )], involving the random variable S, can be simplified considerably, resulting in the effective Hamiltonian... 

In general, the partition function of a Hamiltonian of type (40) is given by... 

We assume that exploring all possible forms for the fields corresponds to exploring the overall usual phase space. To determine the partition function Z the contributions from all the p+ r) and P- r) distributions are summed up with a statistical weight, dependent on p+ r) and p (r), put in the form analogous to the Boltzmann factor exp[—p (F)]], where the effective Hamiltonian p (F)] is a functional of the fields. The... 

For a given Hamiltonian the calculation of the partition function can be done exactly in only few cases (some of them will be presented below). In general the calculation requires a scheme of approximations. Mean-field approximation (MFA) is a very popular approximation based on the steepest descent method [17,22]. In this case it is assumed that the main contribution to Z is due to fields which are localized in a small region of the functional space. More crudely, for each kind of particle only one field is... 

Aj[ the beginning of this chapter, I introduced the notion that the 16 electrons iU ethene could be divided conceptually into two sets, the 14 a and the 2 n electrons. Let me refer to the space and spin variables as xi, Xj, > xi6, and for the minute I will formally label electrons 1 and 2 as the 7r-electrons, with 3 through 16 the cr-electrons. Methods such as Huckel rr-electron theory aim to treat the TT-electrons in an effective field due to the nuclei and the remaining a electrons. To see how this might be done, let s look at the electronic Hamiltonian end see if it can be sensibly partitioned into a rr-electron part (electrons 1 and 2) and a cr part (electrons 3 through 16). We have... 

As we shall see in the next section, some rules do indeed possess energy-like conserved quantities, although it will turn out that (unlike for more familiar Hamiltonian systems), these invariants do not completely govern the evolution of ERCA systems. Their existence nonetheless permits the calculation of standard thermodynamic quantities (such as partition functions). 

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. 

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 Maller-Plesset baricentric (MPB) partition of the C.I. hamiltonian. 

The Liouvillian iLo- = Ho, , where , is the Poisson bracket, describes the evolution governed by the bath Hamiltonian Hq in the held of the fixed Brownian particles. The angular brackets signify an average over a canonical equilibrium distribution of the bath particles with the two Brownian particles fixed at positions Ri and R2, ( -)0 = Z f drNdpNe liW J , where Zo is the partition function. 

---