Random phase approximation, cluster

The vertical IPs of CO deserve special attention because carbon monoxide is a reference compound for the application of photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) to the study of adsorption of gases on metallic surfaces. Hence, the IP of free CO is well-known and has been very accurately measured [62]. A number of very efficient theoretical methods specially devoted to the calculation of ionization energies can be found in the literature. Most of these are related to the so-called random phase approximation (RPA) [63]. The most common formulations result in the equation-of-motion coupled-cluster (EOM-CC) equations [59] and the one-particle Green s function equations [64,65] or similar formalisms [65,66]. These are powerful ways of dealing with IP calculations because the ionization energies are directly obtained as roots of the equations, and the repolarization or relaxation of the MOs upon ionization is implicitly taken into account [59]. In the present work we remain close to the Cl procedures so that a separate calculation is required for each state of the cation and of the ground state of the neutral to obtain the IP values. 

There are several single reference methods to compute electronic transition energies. Among them are configuration interaction-singles (CIS) [48], random-phase approximation (RPA) [49, 50], equation-of-motion couple cluster (EOMCC)... 

Radical initiator 127 Ramified clusters 219 Random walk 191, 214, 263 Random phase approximation (RPA) 191-226, 245, 271, 274, 284, 286, 290 Reprotonation 95 Reptation model 202, 204 Rheology 280... 

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-... 

The simplest polarization propagator corresponds to choosing an HF reference and including only the h2 operator, known as the Random Phase Approximation (RPA), which is identical to Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF), with the corresponding density functional version called Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT). For the static case co= 0) the resulting equations are identical to those obtained from a coupled Hartree-Fock approach (Section 10.5). When used in conjunction with coupled cluster wave functions, the approach is usually called Equation Of Motion (EOM) methods. ... 

AIMD = ab initio molecular dynamics B-LYP = Becke-Lee-Yang-Parr CCSD = coupled cluster single double excitations CVC = core-valence correlation ECP = effective core potential DF = density functional GDA = gradient corrected density approximation MCLR = multiconfigurational linear response MP2 = M0ller-Plesset second-order (MRD)CI = multi-reference double-excitation configuration interaction RPA = random phase approximation TD-MCSCF = time-dependent multiconfigurational self-consistent field TD-SCF = time-dependent self-consistent field. 

The photoabsorption spectrum a(co) of a cluster measures the cross-section for electronic excitations induced by an external electromagnetic field oscillating at frequency co. Experimental measurements of a(co) of free clusters in a beam have been reported, most notably for size-selected alkali-metal clusters [4]. Data for size-selected silver aggregates are also available, both for free clusters and for clusters in a frozen argon matrix [94]. The experimental results for the very small species (dimers and trimers) display the variety of excitations that are characteristic of molecular spectra. Beyond these sizes, the spectra are dominated by collective modes, precursors of plasma excitations in the metal. This distinction provides a clear indication of which theoretical method is best suited to analyze the experimental data for the very small systems, standard chemical approaches are required (Cl, coupled clusters), whereas for larger aggregates the many-body perturbation methods developed by the solid-state community provide a computationally more appealing alternative. We briefly sketch two of these approaches, which can be adapted to a DFT framework (1) the random phase approximation (RPA) of Bohm and Pines [95] and the closely related time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) [96], and (2) the GW method of Hedin and Lundqvist [97]. 

It should be mentioned that there is a difiiculty connected with the freezing out procedure described above. Namely it turns out that the linked cluster theorem is violated (Keiter 1968). This has no implications for the evaluation of diagrams for the coupled RE-ion and phonon or conduction-electron system as long as one uses the mean field or random-phase approximation (RPA). However the method can not be easily applied to more sophisticated approximation schemes. For more details we refer to Fulde and Peschel (1972). Since most of the following considerations are restricted to the above approximations the method can be applied and has considerable advantages because of its simplicity. 

In order to describe the short-range correlations properly we developed an embedding scheme, where we can calculate the short-range correlations within finite embedded clusters, whereas the long-range part, which is neglected in the previous applications, has to be described within a random-phase approximation. " Regarding the further improvement of... 

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