Electron repulsion operator

The A, B, C terms are matrix elements of the v-operator (electronic repulsion integrals) over orbitals. The particle-hole terms are... 

Consider now the Hamilton operator. The nuclear-nuclear repulsion does not depend on electron coordinates and is a constant for a given nuclear geometry. The nuclear-electron attraction is a sum of terms, each depending only on one electron coordinate. The same holds for the electron kinetic energy. The electron-electron repulsion, however, depends on two electron coordinates. 

The one electron operator h, describes the motion of electron i in the field of all the nuclei, and gy is a two electron operator giving the electron-electron repulsion. We note that the zero point of the energy corresponds to the particles being at rest (Tc = 0) and infinitely removed from each other (Vne = Vee = V n = 0). 

So far the theory has been completely general. In order to apply perturbation theory to the calculation of correlation energy, the unperturbed Hamilton operator must be selected. The most common choice is to take this as a sum over Fock operators, leading to Mdller-Plesset (MP) perturbation theory. The sum of Fock operators counts the (average) electron-electron repulsion twice (eq. (3.43)), and the perturbation becomes... 

The necessity for going beyond the HF approximation is the fact that electrons are further apart than described by the product of their orbital densities, i.e. their motions are con-elated. This arises from the electron-electron repulsion operator, which is a sum of ten-ns of the type... 

The electron-electron repulsion operator has a singularity for r 12 = 0 which results in the exact wave function having a cusp (discontinuous derivative).- ... 

The first two terms are the kinetic energy and the potential energy due to the electron-nucleus attraction. V HF(i) is the Hartree-Fock potential. It is the average repulsive potential experienced by the i th electron due to the remaining N-l electrons. Thus, the complicated two-electron repulsion operator l/r in the Hamiltonian is replaced by the simple one-electron operator VHF(i) where the electron-electron repulsion is taken into account only in an average way. Explicitly, VHF has the following two components ... 

An important consequence of the only approximate treatment of the electron-electron repulsion is that the true wave function of a many electron system is never a single Slater determinant We may ask now if SD is not the exact wave function of N interacting electrons, is there any other (necessarily artificial model) system of which it is the correct wave function The answer is Yes it can easily be shown that a Slater determinant is indeed an eigenfunction of a Hamilton operator defined as the sum of the Fock operators of equation (1-25)... 

Ri,R2,. ..,Rk denotes the nuclear coordinates. The first two terms in equation (1) describe, respectively, the electronic kinetic energy and electron-nuclear attraction and the third term is a two-electron operator that represents the electron-electron repulsion. These three operators comprise the electronic Hamiltonian in free space. The term V(r) is a generic operator for an external potential. One of the common ways to express V(f), when it is affecting electrons only, is to expand it as a sum of one-electron contributions... 

This classification in Oj, sufficies for discussion of electron-electron repulsion, because the two terms differ in the assignment of two electrons, and thus can only interact through the id-) electron-electron repulsion operator, which is independent of ligand geometry. 

In the previous section we examined the variational result of the two-term wave function consisting of the covalent and ionic functions. This produces a 2 x 2 Hamiltonian, which may be decomposed into kinetic energy, nuclear attraction, and electron repulsion terms. Each of these operators produces a 2 x 2 matrix. Along with the overlap matrix these are... 

The third term in Eq. (8) is the sum over all electron-electron repulsion operators abbreviated by g(i,j), which is in the case of the relativistic many-electron Hamiltonian equal to... 

To construct the Fock matrix, one must already know the molecular orbitals ( ) since the electron repulsion integrals require them. For this reason, the Fock equation (A.47) must be solved iteratively. One makes an initial guess at the molecular orbitals and uses this guess to construct an approximate Fock matrix. Solution of the Fock equations will produce a set of MOs from which a better Fock matrix can be constructed. After repeating this operation a number of times, if everything goes well, a point will be reached where the MOs obtained from solution of the Fock equations are the same as were obtained from the previous cycle and used to make up the Fock matrix. When this point is reached, one is said to have reached self-consistency or to have reached a self-consistent field (SCF). In practice, solution of the Fock equations proceeds as follows. First transform the basis set / into an orthonormal set 2 by means of a unitary transformation (a rotation in n dimensions),... 

We now consider the PPP, CNDO, INDO, and MINDO two-electron semiempirical methods. These are all SCF methods which iteratively solve the Hartree-Fock-Roothaan equations (1.296) and (1.298) until self-consistent MOs are obtained. However, instead of the true Hartree-Fock operator (1.291), they use a Hartree-Fock operator in which the sum in (1.291) goes over only the valence MOs. Thus, besides the terms in (1.292), f/corc(l) m these methods also includes the potential energy of interaction of valence electron 1 with the field of the inner-shell electrons rather than attempting a direct calculation of this interaction, the integrals of //corc(/) are given by various semiempirical schemes that make use of experimental data furthermore, many of the electron repulsion integrals are neglected, so as to simplify the calculation. 

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