Reduced density-matrix

The electron density calculated from a wave function is given as the square of the function, The reduced density matrix of order y, is defined as ... 

Husimi, K., Proc. Phys.-Math. Soc. Japan 22, 264, "Some formal properties of the density matrix." Introduction of the concept of reduced density matrix. Statistical-mechanical treatment of the Hartree-Fock approximation at an arbitrary temperature and an alternative method of obtaining the reduced density matrices are discussed. 

Reduced Density Matrix versus Wave Function Recent Developments... 

REDUCED DENSITY MATRIX VERSUS WAVE FUNCTION Since... 

The HRO s are holes density operators and operate by first filling orbitals with electrons (i.e. they annihilate holes) and then removing electrons from orbitals (i.e. they create holes). These operators generate the Holes Reduced Density Matrix (HRDM) which in our notation takes the form ... 

However, billiard balls are a pretty bad model for electrons. First of all, as discussed above, electrons are fermions and therefore have an antisymmetric wave function. Second, they are charged particles and interact through the Coulomb repulsion they try to stay away from each other as much as possible. Both of these properties heavily influence the pair density and we will now enter an in-depth discussion of these effects. Let us begin with an exposition of the consequences of the antisymmetry of the wave function. This is most easily done if we introduce the concept of the reduced density matrix for two electrons, which we call y2. This is a simple generalization of p2(x1 x2) given above according to... 

In general, the equations for the density operator should be solved to describe the kinetics of the process. However, if the nondiagonal matrix elements of the density operator (with respect to electron states) do not play an essential role (or if they may be expressed through the diagonal matrix elements), the problem is reduced to the solution of the master equations for the diagonal matrix elements. Equations of two types may be considered. One of them is the equation for the reduced density matrix which is obtained after the calculation of the trace over the states of the nuclear subsystem. We will consider the other type of equation, which describes the change with time of the densities of the probability to find the system in a given electron state as a function of the coordinates of heavy particles Pt(R, q, Q, s,...) and Pf(R, q, ( , s,... ).74,77 80... 

To calculate x( ) we have to calculate the polarizability P(t), which is related to the reduced density matrix p(f). [Here, for convenience, p is used instead of cr(f).] The reduced density matrix satisfies the Liouville equation ... 

The dynamical behaviors of p(At) v and p(At)av av, have to be determined by solving the stochastic Liouville equation for the reduced density matrix the initial conditions are determined by the pumping process. For the purpose of qualitative discussion, we assume that the 80-fs pulse can only pump two vibrational states, say v = 0 and v = 1 states. In this case we obtain... 

Subotnik JE, Hansen T, Ratner MA, Nitzan A (2009) Nonequilibrium steady-state transport via the reduced density-matrix operator. J Chem Phys 130 144105... 

On the other hand, there exist well-developed methods for calculating states of subsystems using the Markov approximation for the reduced density matrix... 

The structure of the left-hand side of Eq. (4.2.14) is the same as the homogeneous equation of Ref. 148 for the matrix elements Pon, n, °f the reduced density matrix... 

Here N is the normalization constant and the coefficients Ai,A2 and B will be determined by Schrodinger equation. We are interested in the reduced density matrix for the long wavelength mode , which is obtained by integrating the density matrix To(i, 2, t) over the short wavelength mode 2 = long wavelength mode can be written in the form... 

Here T(r r ) signifies what is termed as the first-order reduced density matrix, which is defined as... 

From the discussion so far, it is clear that the mapping to a system of noninteracting particles under the action of suitable effective potentials provides an efficient means for the calculation of the density and current density variables of the actual system of interacting electrons. The question that often arises is whether there are effective ways to obtain other properties of the interacting system from the calculation of the noninteracting model system. Examples of such properties are the one-particle reduced density matrix, response functions, etc. An excellent overview of response theory within TDDFT has been provided by Casida [15] and also more recently by van Leeuwen [17]. A recent formulation of density matrix-based TD density functional response theory has been provided by Furche [22]. 

In Section 8.4.2, we considered the problem of the reduced dynamics from a standard DFT approach, i.e., in terms of single-particle wave functions from which the (single-particle) probability density is obtained. However, one could also use an alternative description which arises from the field of decoherence. Here, in order to extract useful information about the system of interest, one usually computes its associated reduced density matrix by tracing the total density matrix p, (the subscript t here indicates time-dependence), over the environment degrees of freedom. In the configuration representation and for an environment constituted by N particles, the system reduced density matrix is obtained after integrating pt = T) (( over the 3N environment degrees of freedom, rk Nk, ... 

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