Mulliken-Mezey approach

A simple, additive fragmentation approach to the molecular electronic density, proposed by the author, can be used for the construction of electronic densities and density-based shape representations for macromolecules. The simplest of these approaches is motivated by Mulliken s population analysis technique,and can be regarded as a natural generalization of Mulliken s approach a formal population analysis without integration. This method, the Mulliken-Mezey approach, is the simplest realization of a more general, additive fuzzy density fragmentation (AFDF) principle. ... 

Electron density decreases exponentially with distance that suggests that an Additive Fuzzy Density Fragmentation (AFDF) approach can be used for both a fuzzy decomposition and construction of molecular electron densities. The simplest AFDF technique is the Mulliken-Mezey density matrix fragmentation [12,13], that is the basis of both the Molecular Electron Density Loge Assembler (MEDLA) [14-17] and the Adjustable Density Matrix Assembler (ADMA) [18-21] macromolecular quantum chemistry methods. 

Within the general Mulliken-Mezey AFDF approach, the set of nuclei of the molecule M are classified into m mutually exclusive families... 

Note that the simplest, Mulliken-Mezey fragmentation scheme employed in the MEDLA method, and in the more advanced macromolecular density matrix approach of the ADMA method [34-37], corresponds to the special choice of v/y =... 

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