Relativistic coupled-cluster method

Eliav, E., Kaldor, U. and Ishikawa, Y. (1994) Open-shell relativistic coupled-cluster method with Dirac-Breit wave functions Energies of the gold atom and its cation. Physical Review Letters, 49, 1724—1729 Including newer unpublished results from this group. 

The relativistic coupled cluster method starts from the four-component solutions of the Drrac-Fock or Dirac-Fock-Breit equations, and correlates them by the coupled-cluster approach. The Fock-space coupled-cluster method yields atomic transition energies in good agreement (usually better than 0.1 eV) with known experimental values. This is demonstrated here by the electron affinities of group-13 atoms. Properties of superheavy atoms which are not known experimentally can be predicted. Here we show that the rare gas eka-radon (element 118) will have a positive electron affinity. One-, two-, and four-components methods are described and applied to several states of CdH and its ions. Methods for calculating properties other than energy are discussed, and the electric field gradients of Cl, Br, and I, required to extract nuclear quadrupoles from experimental data, are calculated. 

A pilot calculation on CdH using one-, two- and four-component Fock space relativistic coupled-cluster methods has been published by Eliav et al. (1998b). The calculated values obtained were in very good agreement with experiment. While the four-component method gives the best results, one- and two-component calculations include almost all the relativistic effects. 

U. Kaldor, Relativistic coupled cluster method and applications, in R.J. Bartlett (Ed.), Recent advances in coupled-cluster methods, Recent advances in computational chemistry, Vol. 3, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 1997, pp. 125-153, and references 45-58 therein. 

Some work has been reported on relativistic coupled cluster methods most notably by Kaldor, Ishikawa and their collaborators.232 These calculations are carried out within the no virtual pair approximation and are therefore analogous to the non-relativistic formulation. Perturbative analysis of the relativistic electronic structure problem demonstrated the importance of the negative energy branch of the spectrum in the calculation of energies and other expectation values. 

Eliav, E., Kaldor, U., Ishikawa, Y. Transition energies in mercury and eka-meicmy (element 112) by the relativistic coupled-cluster method. Phys. Rev. A 52, 2765-2769 (1995)... 

Study of Actinides by Relativistic Coupled Cluster Methods... 

---