Slater determinant integrals

Expanding the Slater determinants and integrating out the spin part and collecting terms that are the same under exchange of electeon indices, we have... 

To this pom t, th e basic approxmi alien is th at th e total wave I lnic-tion IS a single Slater determinant and the resultant expression of the molecular orbitals is a linear combination of atomic orbital basis functions (MO-LCAO). In other words, an ah miiio calculation can be initiated once a basis for the LCAO is chosen. Mathematically, any set of functions can be a basis for an ah mitio calculation. However, there are two main things to be considered m the choice of the basis. First one desires to use the most efficient and accurate functions possible, so that the expansion (equation (49) on page 222). will require the few esl possible term s for an accurate representation of a molecular orbital. The second one is the speed of tW O-electron integral calculation. 

VVc can now see why the normalisation factor of the Slater determinantal wavefunction is I v/N . If each determinant contains N terms then the product of two Slater determinants, ldeU rminant][determinant], contains (N ) terms. However, if the spin orbitals form an oi lhonormal set then oidy products of identical terms from the determinant will be nonzero when integrated over all space. We Ccm illustrate this with the three-electron example, k ljiiiidering just the first two terms in the expansion we obtain the following ... 

The matrix elements between the HF and a doubly excited state are given by two-electron integrals over MOs (eq. (4.7)). The difference in total energy between two Slater determinants becomes a difference in MO energies (essentially Koopmans theorem), and the explicit formula for the second-order Mpller-Plesset correction is... 

Averages of properties require integrals over CSFs which can readily be written for one- and two-electron operators, insofar the Slater determinants and the MSOs are orthonormal by construction, in terms of one- and two-electron density matrices. 

The orbital phase continuity conditions stem from the intrinsic property of electrons. Electrons are fermions, and are described by wavefnnctions antisymmetric (change plus and minus signs) with respect to an interchange of the coordinates of an pair of particles. The antisymmetry principle is a more fnndamental principle than Pauli s exclusion principle. Slater determinants are antisymmetric, which is why the overlap integral between t(a c) given above has a negative... 

The same expression can be used with the appropriate restrictions to obtain matrix elements over Slater determinants made from non-orthogonal one-electron functions. The logical Kronecker delta expression, appearing in equation (15) as defined in (16)] must he substituted by a product of overlap integrals between the involved spinorbitals. 

Let us explore first the nature of the integrand E cl for the limiting cases. At X = 0 we are dealing with an interaction free system, and the only component which is not included in the classical term is due to the antisymmetry of the fermion wave function. Thus, E j° is composed of exchange only, there is no correlation whatsoever.19 Hence, the X = 0 limit of the integral in equation (6-25) simply corresponds to the exchange contribution of a Slater determinant, as for example, expressed through equation (5-18). Remember, that E ° can... 

The one-electron integral in Eq. (2.19) can then be evaluated by substitution of the MO expressions obtained from the relevant Slater determinant [Eq. (2.15)] and the application of the requirements for MO orthonormality in the resulting integral expressions [Eq. (2.3)]. After a substantial amount of algebraic manipulation, it can be shown that the relevant integral can be expressed as the sum of simple one-electron integrals ... 

While in principle all of the methods discussed here are Hartree-Fock, that name is commonly reserved for specific techniques that are based on quantum-chemical approaches and involve a finite cluster of atoms. Typically one uses a standard technique such as GAUSSIAN-82 (Binkley et al., 1982). In its simplest form GAUSSIAN-82 utilizes single Slater determinants. A basis set of LCAO-MOs is used, which for computational purposes is expanded in Gaussian orbitals about each atom. Exchange and Coulomb integrals are treated exactly. In practice the quality of the atomic basis sets may be varied, in some cases even including d-type orbitals. Core states are included explicitly in these calculations. 

We define a normal system as one in which the hole density at the weakly-interacting end of the coupling-constant integration is close to that of a single Slater determinant. In such a system, the local and gradient-corrected holes, evaluated for the exact spin-densities, are nearly exact near the position of the... 

The concept of purification is well known in the linear-scaling literature for one-particle theories like Hartree-Fock and density functional theory, where it denotes the iterative process by which an arbitrary one-particle density matrix is projected onto an idempotent 1-RDM [2,59-61]. An RDM is said to be pure A-representable if it arises from the integration of an Al-particle density matrix T T, where T (the preimage) is an Al-particle wavefiinction [3-5]. Any idempotent 1-RDM is N-representable with a unique Slater-determinant preimage. Within the linear-scaling literature the 1-RDM may be directly computed with unconstrained optimization, where iterative purification imposes the A-representabUity conditions [59-61]. Recently, we have shown that these methods for computing the 1 -RDM directly... 

In the Hartree-Fock method, the molecular (or atomic) electronic wave function is approximated by an antisymmetrized product (Slater determinant) of spin-orbitals each spin-orbital is the product of a spatial orbital and a spin function (a or ft). Solution of the Hartree-Fock equations (given below) yields the orbitals that minimize the variational integral. Thus the Hartree-Fock wave function is the best possible electronic wave function in which each electron is assigned to a spatial orbital. For a closed-subshell state of an -electron molecule, minimization... 

If is predominantly one Slater determinant, the coefficients C may be found by many-body-perturbation theory (29). This theory provides an elegant scheme for simplifying the perturbation formulas by combining terms referring to the same 1 integrals. 

Here h are the one-electron integrals including the electron kinetic energy and the electron-nuclear attraction terms, and gjjkl are the two-electron repulsion integrals defmed by (3 19). The summations in (3 24) are over the molecular orbital basis, and the definition is, of course, only valid as long as we work in this basis. Notice that the number of electrons does not appear in the defmition of the Hamiltonian. All such information is found in the Slater determinant basis. This is true for all operators in the second quantization formalism. 

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