Localized orbital/local origin theory

A DFT-based third order perturbation theory approach includes the FC term by FPT. Based on the perturbed nonrelativistic Kohn-Sham orbitals spin polarized by the FC operator, a sum over states treatment (SOS-DFPT) calculates the spin orbit corrections (35-37). This approach, in contrast to that of Nakatsuji et al., includes both electron correlation and local origins in the calculations of spin orbit effects on chemical shifts. In contrast to these approaches that employed the finite perturbation method the SO corrections to NMR properties can be calculated analytically from... 

Contrarily to conventional MP2 theory, the original formulation of MP2-R12 theory (3,4) did not provide the same results when canonical or localized molecular orbitals were used. Indeed, for calculations on extended molecular systems, unphysical results were obtained when the canonical Hartree-Fock orbitals were rather delocalized (5). In order to circumvent this problem, an orbital-invariant MP2-R12 formulation was introduced in 1991, which is the preferred method since then (6),... 

The first reported approach along these lines was the localized self-consistent-field (LSCF) method of Ferenczy et al. (1992), originally described for the NDDO level of theory. In this case, the auxiliary region consists of a single frozen orbital on each QM boundary atom. 

The basic computational method is that of coupled Hartree-Fock perturbation theory (14). At present we prefer the GIAO implementation mentioned above because of its computational efficiency and ease of use, but we have previously used a common gauge-origin method as implemented in the software SYSMO (15) as well as the random-phase approximation, localized orbital (RPA LORG) approach as implemented in the software RPAC (16). 

Hartree s original idea of the self-consistent field involved only the direct Coulomb interaction between electrons. This is not inconsistent with variational theory [163], but requires an essential modification in order to correspond to the true physics of electrons. In neglecting electronic exchange, the pure Coulombic Hartree mean field inherently allowed an electron to interact with itself, one of the most unsatisfactory aspects of pre-quantum theories. Hartree simply removed the self-interaction by fiat, at the cost of making the mean field different for each electron. Orbital orthogonality, necessary to the concept of independent electrons, could only be imposed by an artificial variational constraint. The need for an ad hoc self-interaction correction (SIC) persists in recent theories based on approximate local exchange potentials. 

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