Spin-restricted Hartree-Fock

Introductory descriptions of Hartree-Fock calculations [often using Rootaan s self-consistent field (SCF) method] focus on singlet systems for which all electron spins are paired. By assuming that the calculation is restricted to two electrons per occupied orbital, the computation can be done more efficiently. This is often referred to as a spin-restricted Hartree-Fock calculation or RHF. 

Choose UHF (spin Unrestricted Hartree-Fock) or RHF (spin Restricted Hartree-Fock) calculations according to your molecular system. HyperChem supports UHF for both open-shell and closed-shell calculations and RHF for closed-shell calculations only. The closed-shell UHF calculation may be useful for studying dissociation of molecular systems. ROHF (spin Restricted Open-shell Hartree-Fock) is not supported in the current version of HyperChem (for ab initio calculations). 

The second approach to treating nondynamical correlation has an air of the ostrich about it ignore the spin symmetry of the wave function and use unrestricted Haxtree-Fock (UHF) theory as the single configuration description [7]. Since the UHF wave function comprises one spin-orbital for each electron, a molecular UHF wave function should dissociate to atomic UHF wave functions, for example. This is certainly not the case for spin-restricted Hartree-Fock (RHF) molecules and atoms in general. And there is an attractive simplicity about UHF — no active orbitals to identify, and so forth. However, where nondynamical correlation would be important in an RHF-based treatment, the UHF method will suffer from severe spin-contamination, while where nondynamical correlation is not important the RHF solution may be lower in energy than any broken-symmetry UHF solution, so potential curves and surfaces may have steps or kinks where the spin symmetry is broken in the UHF treatment. 

An initial equilibrium structure is obtained by geometry optimization at the Hartree-Fock (HF) level with the 6-31G(d) basis.68 69 Spin-restricted Hartree-Fock (RHF) theory is used for singlet states and spin-unrestricted Hartree-Fock theory (UHF) for others. 

In solving Eq. (2), an iterative process is used to adjust the until the best wavefunction is found [self-consistent field (SCF) theory]. For the open shell case where incompletely filled orbitals exist, spin-restricted Hartree-Fock (RHF) methods or unrestricted Hartree-Fock (UHF) methods may be used to calculate the energies.41 The extent of calculation, approximation, or neglect of the two-electron integral terms largely defines the computation method. 

The equations require to be modified for open-shell systems, in which some orbitals are doubly occupied and some singly (this is called spin-restricted Hartree-Fock theory). A further extension to the theory involves electrons of a and /3 spin being assigned to different molecular orbitals, type equations are described as unrestricted Hartree-Fock [31]. 

Molecular orbitals from linear combination of atom orbitals Spin-restricted Hartree-Fock. Wave function constructed from antisymmetrized product of doubly occupied spin orbitals (UHF, spin-unrestricted Hartree-Fock calculations are used for excited states and radicals)... 

Some caution should be exercised in the application of the size consistency concept to open-shell fragments, however. As Taylor has pointed out, a given method may be size consistent for some systems but not for others. For example, the spin-restricted Hartree-Fock (RHF) approach is size consistent for the dissociation of the hydrogen fluoride in its n excited state into atoms. 

For Eq. (11) S is the Bragg vector S = 2ttH, IT is the row vector (htk,l) and the scalar S - S = 4ir sin 0/A. The index / covers the N atoms in the unit cell. The atomic scattering factor f (S) is the Fourier-Bessel transform of the electronic, radial density function of the isolated atom. This density function is usually derived from a spin-restricted Hartree-Fock wave function for the atom in its ground state. The structure fac-... 

In an effort to emphasize the valence structure of chemical bonds, valence electron density maps have been constructed.9 In these studies the core electron density (the spin restricted Hartree-Fock Is orbital product for a first row atom) is assumed invariant to chemical bonding and is the basis of the scattering factor that is incorporated in Eq. (11). 

The Roothaan-Hall equations are not applicable to open-shell systems, which contain one or more unpaired electrons. Radicals are, by definition, open-shell systems as are some ground-state molecules such as NO and 02. Two approaches have been devised to treat open-shell systems. The first of these is spin-restricted Hartree-Fock (RHF) theory, which uses combinations of singly and doubly occupied molecular orbitals. The closed-shell approach that we have developed thus far is a special case of RHF theory. The doubly occupied orbitals use the same spatial functions for electrons of both a and spin. The orbital expansion Equation (2.144) is employed together with the variational method to derive the optimal values of the coefficients. The alternative approach is the spin-unrestricted Hartree-Fock (UHF) theory of Pople and Nesbet [Pople and Nesbet 1954], which uses two distinct sets of molecular orbitals one for electrons of a spin and the other for electrons of / spin. Two Fock matrices are involved, one for each type of spin, with elements as follows ... 

Kobayashi, Sasagane and Yamaguchi" have developed the theory of the time-dependent spin-restricted Hartree-Fock method for application to open shell systems (TDROHF). The expression for the cubic hyperpolarizability is obtained from the quasi-energy derivative (QED) method. The theory is applied to the investigation of the frequency-dependent y susceptibility of the Li, Na, K and N atoms. 

There is a possibility for more than one solution of the Hartree-Fock equations if different electronic states come close on a potential energy surface. Within the spin-restricted Hartree-Fock (RHF) method, singlet and triplet instabilities are distinguished, The former involves the existence of another solution with lower energy and an electron distribution of lower symmetry, normally indicating that the initially assumed geometry is incorrect. Triplet instability involves rejection of the condition of double occupancy of molecular orbitals and a spin-unrestricted Hartree-Fock (UHF) method treatment is mandatory. The triplet instability is a necessary, but insufficient, condition for a biradical character of a ground state. 

In the SCF MO theory the bond network is determined by the occupied MO in the system ground state. For reasons of simplicity we assume the closed-shell ( ) configuration of N = 2n electrons in the standard (spin-restricted) Hartree-Fock (RHF) description, which involves n lowest (doubly occupied, orthonormal) MO. In the familiar LCAO MO approach they are expanded as linear combinations of the (Lowdin) orthogonalized AO t = (Zi> Z2> > Zm) = iXi) crnitributed by the system constituent atoms ... 

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