Pure two-body correlation matrix

A. The Pure Two-Body Correlation Matrix within the 2-RDM Formalism... 

That is, all the information about the three important matrices 2-RDM, 2-HRDM, and 2-G is contained and available in the pure two-body correlation matrix. Moreover, the spin properties of both the pure two-body correlation matrix and the 2-G matrices play a central role in this purification procedure. 

That is, both the 2-CM and the 2-G matrix have common elements, but a given element occupies different positions in each matrix. In other words, while the labels of the row/column of the 2-CM refer, as in the 2-RDM, to two particlesitwo holes, the labels of the row/column of the 2-G matrix refer to particle-hole/hole-particle. Thus, although both the 2-CM and the 2-G matrices describe similar types of correlation effects, only the 2-CM describes pure two-body correlation effects. This is because the 2-CM natural tensorial contractions vanish, and thus there is no contribution to the natural contraction of the 2-RDM into the one-body space whereas the 2-G natural tensorial contractions are functionals of the 1-RDM. 

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