The Energy of a Slater Determinant

We will first evaluate the energy of a single Slater detenninant. It is convenient to write it as a sum of permutations over the diagonal of the determinant. We will denoted the diagonal product by IT, and use the symbol to represent the determinant wave function. 

The 1 operator is the identity, while Py generates all possible permutations of two electron coordinates, Pyi all possible permutations of three electron coordinates etc. It may be shown that the antisymmetrizing operator A commutes with H, and that A acting twice gives the same as A acting once, multiplied by the square root of N factorial. 

Consider now the Hamilton operator. The nuclear-nuclear repulsion does not depend on electron coordinates and is a constant for a given nuclear geometry. The nuclear-electron attraction is a sum of terms, each depending only on one electron coordinate. The same holds for the electron kinetic energy. The electron-electron repulsion, however, depends on two electron coordinates. 

The operators may be collected according to the number of electron indices. 

The one electron operator h, describes the motion of electron i in the field of all the nuclei, and gy is a two electron operator giving the electron-electron repulsion. We note that the zero point of the energy corresponds to the particles being at rest (Tc = 0) and infinitely removed from each other (Vne = Vee = V n = 0). 

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If one works out this expression one obtains equations that are identical to equations (316) and (317). These equations were first derived by Talman and Shadwick [45]. Since in our procedure we optimized the energy of a Slater determinant wavefunction under the constraint that the orbitals in the Slater determinant come from a local potential, the method is also known as the optimized potential method (OPM). We have therefore obtained the result that the OPM and the expansion to order e2 are equivalent procedures. The OPM has many similarities to the Hartree-Fock approach. Within the Hartree-Fock approximation one minimizes the energy of a Slater determinant wavefunction under the constraint that the orbitals are orthonormal. One then obtains one-particle equations for the orbitals that contain a nonlocal potential. Within the OPM, on the other hand, one adds the additional requirement that the orbitals must satisfy single-particle equations with a local potential. Due to this constraint the OPM total energy ) will in general be higher than the Hartree-Fock energy Fhf, i.e., Ex > E. We refer to Refs. [46,47] for an application of the OPM method for molecules. 

Let us first briefly recall how these GSMO s are obtained The energy of a Slater determinant (where a is the usual antisymmetrizer)... 

The calculation of the energy of a Slater determinant and the interaction between two different Slater determinants may seem a rather complicated task given the large number of terms (A ) when the determinant is written in its explicit form. However, the Slater-Condon rules given in Table 1.1 establish a few simple relations to calculate matrix elements between two Slater determinants. 

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