Operators spin-orbit, second-quantized

The occupation number vectors are basis vectors in an abstract linear vector space and specify thus only the occupation of the spin orbitals. The occupation number vectors contain no reference to the basis set. The reference to the basis set is built into the operators in the second quantization formalism. Observables are described by expectation values of operators and must be independent of the representation given to the operators and states. The matrix elements of a first quantization operator between two Slater determinants must therefore equal its counterpart of the second quantization formulation. For a given basis set the operators in the Fock space can thus be determined by requiring that the matrix elements between two occupation number vectors of the second quantization operator, must equal the matrix elements between the corresponding two Slater determinants of the corresponding first quantization operators. Operators that are considered in first quantization like the kinetic energy and the coulomb repulsion conserve the number of electrons. In the Fock space these operators must be represented as linear combinations of multipla of the ajaj... 

Let us now look at one-particle operators in the second-quantization representation, defined by (13.22). Substituting into (13.22) the one-electron matrix element and applying the Wigner-Eckart theorem (5.15) in orbital and spin spaces, we obtain by summation over the projections... 

In this chapter we have found the relationship between the various operators in the second-quantization representation and irreducible tensors of the orbital and spin spaces of a shell of equivalent electrons. In subsequent chapters we shall be looking at the techniques of finding the matrix elements of these operators. 

The incorporation of spin in second quantization leads to operators with different spin synunetry properties as demonstrated in Section 2.2. Thus, spin-free interactions are represented by operatOTs that are totally symmetric in spin space and thus expressed in terms of orbital excitation operators that affect alpha and beta electrons equally, whereas pure spin interactions are represented by excitation operators that affect alpha and beta electrons differently. For the efficient and transparent manipulation of these operators, we shall apply the standard machinery of group theory. More specifically, we shall adopt the theory of tensor operators for angular momentum in quantum mechanics and develop a useful set of tools for the construction and classification of states and operators with definite spin symmetry properties. 

In the usual formalism of quantum mechanics, the first quantization formalism, observables are represented by operators and the wave functions are normal functions. In the method of second quantization, the wave functions are also expressed in terms of operators. The formalism starts with the introduction of an abstract vector space, the Fock space. The basis vectors of the Fock space are occupation number vectors, with each vector defined by a set of occupation numbers (0 or 1 for fermions). An occupation number vector represents a Slater determinant with each occupation number giving the occupation of given spin orbital. Creation and annihilation operators that respectively adds and removes electrons are then introduced. Representations of usual operators are expressed in terms of the very same operators. 

Other two-electron operators are the mass-polarization and the spin-orbit coupling operator. A two-electron operator gives non-vanishing matrix elements between two Slater determinants if the determinants contain at least two electrons and if they differ in the occupation of at most two pairs of electrons. The second quantization representation of a two-electron operator must thus have the structure... 

In the second-quantization representation the atomic interaction operators are given by relations (13.22) and (13.23), which do not include the operators themselves in coordinate representations, but rather their one-electron and two-electron matrix elements. Therefore, in terms of irreducible tensors in orbital and spin spaces, we must expand the products of creation and annihilation operators that enter (13.22) and (13.23). In this approach, the tensorial properties of one-electron wave functions are translated to second-quantization operators. 

It is to be stressed that, although the two-electron submatrix elements in (14.63) and (14.65) are defined relative to non-antisymmetric wave functions, some constraints on the possible values of orbital and spin momenta of the two particles are imposed in an implicit form by second-quantization operators. Really, tensorial products (14.40) and (14.42), when the sum of ranks is odd, are zero. Thus, the appropriate terms in (14.63) and (14.65) then also vanish. 

The operator of the energy of electrostatic interaction of electrons in (14.65) is represented as a sum of second-quantization operators, and the appropriate submatrix element of each term is proportional to the energy of electrostatic interaction of a pair of equivalent electrons with orbital Lu and spin S12 angular momenta. The values of these submatrix elements are different for different pairing states, since, as follows from (14.66), the two-electron submatrix elements concerned are explicitly dependent on L12, and, hence, implicitly - on S12 (sum L12 + S12 is even). It is in this way that, in the second-quantization representation for the lN configuration, the dependence of the energy of electrostatic interaction on the angles between the particles shows up. This dependence violates the central field approximation. 

As has been shown, second-quantized operators can be expanded in terms of triple tensors in the spaces of orbital, spin and quasispin angular momenta. The wave functions of a shell of equivalent electrons (15.46) are also classified using the quantum numbers L, S, Q, Ml, Ms, Mq of the three commuting angular momenta. Therefore, we can apply the Wigner-Eckart theorem (5.15) in all three spaces to the matrix elements of any irreducible triple tensorial operator T(JC K) defined relative to wave functions (15.46)... 

G. Gaigalas, A. Bernotas, Z. Rudzikas, Ch. Froese Fischer, Spin-other-orbit operator in the tensorial form of second quantization, Physica Scripta, 57, 207-212 (1998). 

The action of these operators on the expressions in Table 2 is governed by the set of commutation rules, specified in Eq. 3. Their raising or lowering character is made particularly transparent by the second-quantized formalism. As an example the + operator is seen to consist of a mi, a m. parts as these parts run through the operator sequences of the (t)3 multiplets they destroy a P spin on the l mr orbital and create an a spin on the same orbital, thus raising Ms by one. 

The resolvent in eq. (1.208) is called the one-electron Green s function and the notation for it reads G (z). The integration contour may be set in such a way that it encloses all the poles of the resolvent corresponding to the occupied MOs giving by this the required total projection operator. In the spin-orbital occupation number and the second quantization representations related to each other, one can write the operator projecting to the occupied (spin)-MO as an operator of the number of particles in it. Indeed, the expression... 

The results of response theory are most conveniently cast into a formalism based on second quantization. In a second quantized representation of (66), the spin-operators will transfer to triplet excitation operators which are weighted by the integrals over the orbital parts. The -component will have the form... 

The present work details the derivation of a full coupled-cluster model, including single, double, and triple excitation operators. Second quantization and time-independent diagrams are used to facilitate the derivation the treatment of (diagram) degeneracy and permutational symmetry is adapted from time-dependent methods. Implicit formulas are presented in terms of products of one- and two-electron integrals, over (molecular) spin-orbitals and cluster coefficients. Final formulas are obtained that restrict random access requirements to rank 2 modified integrals and sequential access requirements to the rank 3 cluster coefficients. 

The calculation of expectation values of operators over the wavefunction, expanded in terms of these determinants, involves the expansion of each determinant in terms of the N expansion terms followed by the spatial coordinate and spin integrations. This procedure is simplified when the spatial orbitals are chosen to be orthonormal. This results in the set of Slater Condon rules for the evaluation of one- and two-electron operators. A particularly compact representation of the algebra associated with the manipulation of determinantal expansions is the method of second quantization or the occupation number representation . This is discussed in detail in several textbooks and review articles - - , to which the reader is referred for more detail. An especially entertaining presentation of second quantization is given by Mattuck . The usefulness of this approach is that it allows quite general algebraic manipulations to be performed on operator expressions. These formal manipulations are more cumbersome to perform in the wavefunction approach. It should be stressed, however, that these approaches are equivalent in content, if not in style, and lead to identical results and computational procedures. 

The effect of a transformation of the orbital basis on the expansion kets using second quantization is important in the MCSCF method. An arbitrary ket may be written as an ordered product of creation operators corresponding to the occupied spin orbitals operating on a completely empty determinant . For example... 

There have been a number of means proposed for circumventing superposition error. Mayer et al. advocated what they term a chemical Hamiltonian approach, which separates the physical part of this operator from that responsible for BSSE using a nonorthogonal second quantization formalism. However, the physical Hamiltonian is no longer variational and the wavefunction is constructed from orthonormalized molecular spin orbitals. Surjan et al. " further developed this approach and performed pilot applications on small complexes. 

Here (P)0 7 ) is the second-quantized operator producing the relevant normalized wave function out of vacuum, i.e. it simply generalizes the relationship (15.4) to the case of tensors with an additional (isospin) rank. Since the vacuum state is a scalar in isospin space (unlike quasispin space), the expressions for wave functions and matrix elements of standard quantities in the spaces of orbital and spin momenta can readily be generalized by the addition of a third (isospin) rank to two ranks in appropriate formulas of Chapter 15. 

Although Eqs. (1.2)-(1.5) contain all of the fundamental properties of the Fermion (electron) creation and annihilation operators, it may be useful to make a few additional remarks about how these operators are used in subsequent applications. In treating perturbative expansions of N-electron wavefunctions or when attempting to optimize the spin-orbitals appearing in such wavefunctions, it is often convenient to refer to Slater determinants that have been obtained from some reference determinant by replacing certain spin-orbitals by other spin orbitals. In terms of second-quantized operators, these spin-orbital replacements will be achieved by using the replacement operator as in Eq. (1.9). 

In examining the above expressions for the second-quantized one- and two-electron operators, it should become clear, for example, that the one-electron operators, which contain r s, can connect two N-electron kets (corresponding to N-electron Slater determinants) that differ by at most one spin-orbital label. That is, r s can cause only a single spin-orbital replacement. Similarly, the two-electron operators containing r s ut can connect kets differing by at most two spin-orbital labels. 

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