Hartree-Fock-Roothaan wave function

The expansion of the Roothaan-Hartree-Fock wave functions for the ground-state atoms tabulated by Clementi and Roetti (1974) can be used for this purpose. 

We have used the terms SCF wave function and Hartree-Fock wave function interchangeably. In practice, the term SCF wave function is applied to any wave function obtained by iterative solution of the Roothaan equations, whether or not the basis set is large enough to give a really accurate approximation to the Hartree-Fock SCF wave function. There is only one true Hartree-Fock SCF wave function, which is the best possible wave function that can be written as a Slater determinant of spin-orbitals. Some of the extended-basis-set calculations approach the true Hartree-Fock wave... 

We will begin this chapter by constructing determinantal trial functions from the Hartree-Fock molecular orbitals, obtained by solving Roothaan s equations. It will prove convenient to describe the possible N-electron functions by specifying how they differ from the Hartree-Fock wave function Fo Wave functions that differ from Tq by w spin orbitals are called n-tuply excited determinants. We then consider the structure of the full Cl matrix, which is simply the Hamiltonian matrix in the basis of all possible N-electron functions formed by replacing none, one, two,... all the way up to N spin orbitals in Section 4.2 we consider various approximations to the full Cl matrix obtained by truncating the many-electron trial function at some excitation level. In particular, we discuss, in some detail, a form of truncated Cl in which the trial function contains determinants which differ from To by at most two spin orbitals. Such a calculation is referred to as singly and doubly excited Cl (SDCI). 

Other calculations tested using this molecule include two-dimensional, fully numerical solutions of the molecular Dirac equation and LCAO Hartree-Fock-Slater wave functions [6,7] local density approximations to the moment of momentum with Hartree-Fock-Roothaan wave functions [8] and the effect on bond formation in momentum space [9]. Also available are the effects of information theory basis set quality on LCAO-SCF-MO calculations [10,11] density function theory applied to Hartree-Fock wave functions [11] higher-order energies in... 

We have now succeeded in expressing the Hartree-Fock equations in the AO basis, avoiding any transformation to the MO basis. The pseudo-eigenvalue equations (10.6.16) are called the Roothaan-Hall equations [3,4]. In Exercise 10.4, the Roothaan-Hall SCF procedure is used to calculate the Hartree-Fock wave function for HeH in the STO-3G basis. 

In this exercise, we carry out an STO-3G Roothaan-Hall optimization of the Hartree-Fock wave function of HeH" " at the internuclear distance of 1.463796co- HeH" " system is chosen rather than H2 since the HeH+ orbitals are not determined by symmetry. The AO integrals are given in Table IOE.4.1, the optimized MOs in Table IOE.4.2 and the corresponding MO integrals in Table IOE.4.3. Atomic units are used throughout this exercise. 

Table IOE.4.4 The enei gy and gradient of each iteration of the Roothaan-Hall optimization of the HeH Hartree-Fock wave function (Eh)...

The starting point for the vast majority of molecular wavefunctions is the Hartree-Fock framework as developed by Roothaan. The molecular wave-function F is expressed as an antisymmetrized product of molecular orbitals 0 each multiplied by its appropriate spin function,... 

The momentum wave functions in various atomic models are calculated for arbitrary atomic orbitals. The nonrelativistic hydrogenic, the Hartree-Fock, the relativistic hydrogenic, and the Dirac-Fock models are considered. The momentum wave functions are obtained as a Fourier transform of the wave function in the position space. The Hartree-Fock and the Dirac-Fock wave functions in atoms are given in terms of Slater-type orbitals (STO s), i.e. the Hartree-Fock-Roothaan (HFR) method and the relativistic HFR (RHFR) method. All the wave functions in the momentum space can be expressed analytically in terms of hypergeometric functions. 

M. Towler, An introductory guide to Gaussian basis sets in solid state electronic structure calculations, http //www.orystal.unito.it/tutojan2004/tutorials/index.html A.D. McLean, R.S. McLean, Roothaan-Hartree-Fock atomic wave functions (Slater basis-set expansions for Z=55-92),... 

The most simple approach is the Hartree-Fock (HF) self-consistent field (SCF) approximation, in which the electronic wave function is expressed as an antisymmetrized product of one-electron functions. In this way, each electron is assumed to move in the average field of all other electrons. The one-electron functions, or spin orbitals, are taken as a product of a spatial function (molecular orbital) and a spin function. Molecular orbitals are constructed as a linear combination of atomic basis functions. The coefficients of this linear combination are obtained by solving iteratively the Roothaan equations. 

Considering the different calculated values for an individual complex in Table 11, it seems appropriate to comment on the accuracy achievable within the Hartree-Fock approximation, with respect to both the limitations inherent in the theory itself and also to the expense one is willing to invest into basis sets. Clearly the Hartree-Fock-Roothaan expectation values have a uniquely defined meaning only as long as a complete set of basis functions is used. In practice, however, one is forced to truncate the expansion of the wave function at a point demanded by the computing facilities available. Some sources of error introduced thereby, namely ghost effects and the inaccurate description of ligand properties, have already been discussed in Chapter II. Here we concentrate on the... 

Beginning in the 1960s, Richard Bader initiated a systematic study of molecular electron density distributions and their relation to chemical bonding using the Hellmann-Feynman theorem.188 This work was made possible through a collaboration with the research group of Professors Mulliken and Roothaan at the University of Chicago, who made available their wave-functions for diatomic molecules, functions that approached the Hartree-Fock limit and were of unsurpassed accuracy. 

Now we are ready to start the derivation of the intermediate scheme bridging quantum and classical descriptions of molecular PES. The basic idea underlying the whole derivation is that the experimental fact that the numerous MM models of molecular PES and the VSEPR model of stereochemistry are that successful, as reported in the literature, must have a theoretical explanation [21], The only way to obtain such an explanation is to perform a derivation departing from a certain form of the trial wave function of electrons in a molecule. QM methods employing the trial wave function of the self consistent field (or equivalently Hartree-Fock-Roothaan) approximation can hardly be used to base such a derivation upon, as these methods result in an inherently delocalized and therefore nontransferable description of the molecular electronic structure in terms of canonical MOs. Subsequent a posteriori localization... 

Application of ab initio MO theory usually begins at the monoconfigurational level, with the Hartree-Fock-Roothaan or LCAO-SCF methodology [4,5]. In this scheme the wave function for a closed-shell molecule containing N electrons is approximated as an antisymmetrized product (determinant) of spin-orbitals, ... 

Hartree-Fock-Roothaan Closed-Shell Theory. Here [7], the molecular spin-orbitals it where the subscript labels the different MOs, are functions of (af, 2/", z") (where /z stands for the coordinate of the /zth electron) and a spin function. The configurational wave function is represented by a single determinantal antisymmetrized product wave function. The total Hamiltonian operator 2/F is defined by... 

Table 3.3. Equilibrium bond distance [R(O-H) in aj for H2O from an (SCF) Hartree-Fock-Roothaan calculation, and calculations using correlated wave functions (Cl and MBPT) compared with experiment...

Additional information on orbital type and composition is available from (e,2e) or electron momentum spectroscopy (Moore et al., 1982 see Appendix B) performed on Sip4 by Fantoni et al. (1986). Electron momentum distributions measured at various binding energies have been compared with those from ah initio Hartree-Fock-Roothaan SCF calculations using a double- wave function with a single Si 3of polarization... 

Paschalis, E., and A. Weiss (1969). Hartree-Fock-Roothaan wave functions, electron density distributions, diamagnetic susceptibility, dipole polarizability and antishielding factor for ions in crystals. Theoret. Chim. Act. 13, 381-403. 

Each of these methods is based on the AFDF approach. Within the framework of the conventional Hartree-Fock-Roothaan-Hall self-consistent field linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) ab initio representation of molecular wave functions built from molecular orbitals (MOs), the AFDF principle can be formulated using fragment density matrices. For a complete molecule M of some nuclear configuration K, using an atomic orbital (AO) basis of a set of n AOs density matrix P can be determined using the coefficients of AOs in the occupied MOs. The electronic density p(r) of the molecule M, a function of the three-dimensional position variable r, can be written as... 

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