Hartree SCF method

These defects of the Hartree SCF method were corrected by Fock (Section 4.3.4) and by Slater2 in 1930 [8], and Slater devised a simple way to construct a total wavefunction from one-electron functions (i.e. orbitals) such that will be antisymmetric to electron switching. Hartree s iterative, average-field approach supplemented with electron spin and antisymmetry leads to the Hartree-Fock equations. 

The Hartree SCF Method. Because of the interelectronic repulsion terms the Schrodinger equation for an atom is not separable. Recalling the perturbation treatment of helium (Section 9.3), we can obtain a zeroth-order wave function by neglecting these repulsions. The Schrddinger equation would then separate into n one-electron hydrogenlike equations. The zeroth-order wave function would be a product of n hydrogenlike (one-electron) orbitals ... 

The Hartree SCF method approximates the atomic wave function as a product of one-electron spatial orbitals [Eq. (11.2)] and finds the best possible forms for the orbitals by an iterative calculation in which each electron is assumed to move in the field jffo-duced by the nucleus and a hypothetical charge cloud due to the other electrons. 

True or false (a) Hie spin multiplicity of every term of an atom with an odd number of electrons must be an even number. (b)The spin multiplicity of every term of an atom with an even number of electrons must be an odd number. (c)Hie spin multiplicity of a term is always equal to the number of levels of that term, (d) In the Hartree SCF method, the energy of an atom equals the sum of the orbital energies of the electrons, (e) Hie Hartree-Fock method k capable of giving the exact nonrelativistic energy of a many-electron atom. 

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, a team led by Hartree [9] formulated a self-consistent-field iterative numerical process to treat atoms. In 1930, Fock [10] noted that the Hartree-SCF method needed a correction due to electron exchange and the combined method was known as the Hartree-Fock SCF method. It was not until 1951 that a molecular form of the LCAO-SCF method was derived by Roothaan [11] as given in Appendix B but we can give a brief outline here. The Roothaan method allows the LCAO to be used for more than one atomic center and so the path was open to treat molecules Now, all we have to do is to carry out the integral for the expectation value of the energy as... 

Bacskay G B 1981 A quadratically convergent Hartree-Fock (QC-SCF) method. Applications to the closed-shell case Chem. Phys. 61 385... 

Having the Slater atomic orbitals, the linear combination approximation to molecular orbitals, and the SCF method as applied to the Fock matrix, we are in a position to calculate properties of atoms and molecules ab initio, at the Hartree-Fock level of accuracy. Before doing that, however, we shall continue in the spirit of semiempirical calculations by postponing the ab initio method to Chapter 10 and invoking a rather sophisticated set of approximations and empirical substitutions... 

Introductory descriptions of Hartree-Fock calculations [often using Rootaan s self-consistent field (SCF) method] focus on singlet systems for which all electron spins are paired. By assuming that the calculation is restricted to two electrons per occupied orbital, the computation can be done more efficiently. This is often referred to as a spin-restricted Hartree-Fock calculation or RHF. 

Not all iterative semi-empirical or ab initio calculations converge for all cases. For SCF calculations of electronic structure, systems with a small energy gap between the highest occupied orbital and the lowest unoccupied orbital may not converge or may converge slowly. (They are generally poorly described by the Hartree-Fock method.)... 

Ab initio calculations are iterative procedures based on self-consistent field (SCF) methods. Normally, calculations are approached by the Hartree-Fock closed-shell approximation, which treats a single electron at a time interacting with an aggregate of all the other electrons. Self-consistency is achieved by a procedure in which a set of orbitals is assumed, and the electron-electron repulsion is calculated this energy is then used to calculate a new set of orbitals, which in turn are used to calculate a new repulsive energy. The process is continued until convergence occurs and self-consistency is achieved." ... 

The value is in hartrees. The number of cycles it took the SCF calculation to converge is also given on this line (refer to Appendix A for a discussion of the iterative nature of the SCF method). When we discuss energies in this work, we will generally use hartrees (atomic units) when we discuss energy differences, kcal-moT will often be a more convenient unit (especially when comparing calculation predictions to experimental results). 

A variety of theoretical methods have been developed which include some effects of electron correlation. Traditionally, such methods are referred to as post-SCF methods because they add correlation corrections to the basic Hartree-Fock model. As of this writing, there are many correlation methods available in Gaussian, including the following ... 

Sir William Hartree developed ingenious ways of solving the radial equation, and they are documented in Douglas R. Hartree s book (1957). By the time this book was published, the SCF method had been well developed, and its connection with the variation principle was finally understood. It is interesting to note that Chapter 2 of Douglas R. Hartree s book deals with the variation principle. 

When deriving the Hartree-Fock equations it was only required that the variation of the energy with respect to an orbital variation should be zero. This is equivalent to the first derivatives of the energy with respect to the MO expansion coefficients being equal to zero. The Hartree-Fock equations can be solved by an iterative SCF method, and... 

For planar unsaturated and aromatic molecules, many MO calculations have been made by treating the a and n electrons separately. It is assumed that the o orbitals can be treated as localized bonds and the calculations involve only the tt electrons. The first such calculations were made by Hiickel such calculations are often called Hiickel molecular orbital (HMO) calculations Because electron-electron repulsions are either neglected or averaged out in the HMO method, another approach, the self-consistent field (SCF), or Hartree-Fock (HF), method, was devised. Although these methods give many useful results for planar unsaturated and aromatic molecules, they are often unsuccessful for other molecules it would obviously be better if all electrons, both a and it, could be included in the calculations. The development of modem computers has now made this possible. Many such calculations have been made" using a number of methods, among them an extension of the Hiickel method (EHMO) and the application of the SCF method to all valence electrons. ... 

Even an exact Hartree-Fock calculation cannot be exempt from the correlation error. A practical method of evaluation has been proposed by Hollister and Sinanoglu 16>. An LCAO SCF method has been applied to the calculation of the heat of various simple reactions by Snyder and Basch 17>. They have evaluated the correlation error by the method of Hollister and Sinanoglu 16>. 

In the cases other than [case A] and [case B), so called "open-shell SCF methods are employed. The orbital concept becomes not quite certain. The methods are divided into classes which are "restricted 18> and "unrestricted 19> Hartree-Fock procedures. In the latter case the wave function obtained is no longer a spin eigenfunction. 

In most work reported so far, the solute is treated by the Hartree-Fock method (i.e., Ho is expressed as a Fock operator), in which each electron moves in the self-consistent field (SCF) of the others. The term SCRF, which should refer to the treatment of the reaction field, is used by some workers to refer to a combination of the SCRF nonlinear Schrodinger equation (34) and SCF method to solve it, but in the future, as correlated treatments of the solute becomes more common, it will be necessary to more clearly distinguish the SCRF and SCF approximations. The SCRF method, with or without the additional SCF approximation, was first proposed by Rinaldi and Rivail [87, 88], Yomosa [89, 90], and Tapia and Goscinski [91], A highly recommended review of the foundations of the field was given by Tapia [71],... 

Since the exact solution of the Hartree-Fock equation for molecules also proved to be impossible, numerical methods approximating the solution of the Schrodinger s equation at the HF limit have been developed. For example, in the Roothan-Hall SCF method, each SCF orbital is expressed in terms of a linear combination of fixed orbitals or basis sets ((Pi). These orbitals are fixed in the sense that they are not allowed to vary as the SCF calculation proceeds. From n basis functions, new SCF orbitals are generated by... 

The Hartree-Fock self-consistent field (SCF) method is the primary tool used in this chapter. It is rooted in the time-independent one-electron Schrodinger equation (in atomic units) ... 

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