Propagator, coupled cluster

The use of Cl methods has been declining in recent years, to the profit of MP and especially CC methods. It is now recognized that size extensivity is important for obtaining accurate results. Excited states, however, are somewhat difficult to treat by perturbation or coupled cluster methods, and Cl or MCSCF based methods have been the prefen ed methods here. More recently propagator or equation of motion (Section 10.9) methods have been developed for coupled cluster wave functions, which allows calculation of exited state properties. 

More recently Equation Of Motion (EOM) methods have been used in connection with other types of wave functions, most notably coupled cluster.Such EOM methods are closely related to propagator methods, and give working equations which are similar to those encountered in propagator theory. 

Korona T, Przybytek M, Jeziorski B. Time-independent coupled cluster theory of the polarization propagator. Implementation and application of the singles and doubles model to dynamic polarizabilities and Van der Waals constants, 2006. Submitted to Mol. Phys 104 2302-2316... 

Computationally, the present approach rests on the QVC coupling scheme in conjunction with coupled-cluster electronic structure calculations for the vibronic Hamiltonian, and on the MCDTH wave packet propagation method for the nuclear dynamics. In combination, these are powerful tools for studying such systems with 10-20 nuclear degrees of freedom. (This holds especially in view of so-called multilayer MCTDH implementations which further enhance the computational efficiency [130,131].) If the LVC or QVC schemes are not applicable, related variants of constructing diabatic electronic states are available [132,133], which may extend the realm of application from the present spectroscopic and photophysical also to photochemical problems. Their feasibility and further applications remain to be investigated in future work. 

It is well known that electron correlation plays a key role in understanding the most interesting phenomena in molecules. It has been the focal point of atomic and molecular theory for many years [1] and various correlated methods have been developed [2]. Among them are many-body perturbation theory [3] (MBPT) and its infinite-order generalization, coupled cluster (CC) theory [4,5], which provides a systematic way to obtain the essential effects of correlation. Propagator [6-9] or Green s function methods (GFM) [10-14] provide another correlated tool to calculate the electron correlation corrections to ionization potentials (IPs), electron affinites (EAs), and electronic excitations. 

CCPPA coupled cluster polarization propagator approximation... 

CCDPPA coupled-cluster doubles polarization propagator approximation (Section VII. E),... 

Very recently we have formulated and tested a new coupled-cluster polarization propagator method (Geertsen and Oddershede, 1986a). We still use a perturbation expansion of the reference state but we replace the Rayleigh-Schrodinger correlation coefficients (i =1,2)... 

Electronic correlation in extended systems remains a central problem despite impressive progress in recent years. For small systems a number of very powerful methods have reached a high degree of accuracy thanks to a combination of formal algebraic and numerical techniques. These include configuration interaction,1-5 propagator methods,2,4 5 many-body perturbation procedures,3-5 and coupled-cluster methods.4 For extended systems density functional methods6,7 dominate the scene. Certain forms of correlation are taken into account by such methods, but how and to what extent are still unclear.8... 

There do exist recent quantum chemical techniques which are size consistent. Among them, the Random Phase Approximation (RPA), its variants such as the Second-Order Polarization Propagator Approximation (SOPPA) [10], and the Coupled Cluster Approximation (CCA) [11] axe the most prominent and being widely used. In the SOPPA method, electron correlation effects are included in the two-particle polarization propagator to second order. The coupled cluster method uses an exponential ansatz through which higher-order exci-... 

In this substection we will shortly discuss the computational methods used for calculation of the spin-spin coupling constants. Two main approaches available are ab initio theory from Hartree-Fock (or self-consistent field SCF) technique to its correlated extensions, and density function theory (DFT), where the electron density, instead of the wave function, is the fundamental quantity. The discussion here is limited to the methods actually used for calculation of the intermolecular spin-spin coupling constants, i. e. multiconfigurational self consistent field (MCSCF) theory, coupled cluster (CC) theory and density functional theory (DFT). For example, the second order polarization propagator method (SOPPA) approach is not... 

By the end of the 1980s, state of the art methods of quantum chemistry, such as coupled cluster, configuration interaction, fourth order perturbation theory (MP4), second-order polarization propagator (SOPPA, multiconfigu-rational linear response (MCLR) etc., had been applied to the calculation of... 

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