Time-dependent Hartree-Fock TDHF theory

3 Time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory 

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Currently the time dependent DFT methods are becoming popular among the workers in the area of molecular modelling of TMCs. A comprehensive review of this area is recently given by renown workers in this field [116]. From this review one can clearly see [117] that the equations used for the density evolution in time are formally equivalent to those known in the time dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory [118-120] or in its equivalent - the random phase approximation (RPA) both well known for more than three quarters of a century (more recent references can be found in [36,121,122]). This allows to use the analysis performed for one of these equivalent theories to understand the features of others. 

TDDFRT presented in this section is also applied within the time-dependent hybrid approach. It parallels the corresponding approach in DFT and it combines TDDFRT with the time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory [10, 54]. Instead of a pure DFT xc potential vxca, the hybrid approach employs for the orbital (j)i(y in (7) an admixture of an approximate potential vxca with the exchange Hartree-Fock potential vxja for this orbital... 

Integration of the system of equations (9) yields trajectories of classical nuclei dressed with END. This approach can be characterized as being direct, and non-adiabatic or as fully non-linear time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory of quantum electrons and classical nuclei. This simultaneous dynamics of electrons and nuclei driven by their mutual instantaneous forces requires a different approach to the choice of basis sets than that commonly encountered in electronic structure calculations with fixed nuclei. This aspect will be further discussed in connection with applications of END. 

In this minimal END approximation, the electronic basis functions are centered on the average nuclear positions, which are dynamical variables. In the limit of classical nuclei, these are conventional basis functions used in molecular electronic structure theory, and they follow the dynamically changing nuclear positions. As can be seen from the equations of motion discussed above the evolution of the nuclear positions and momenta is governed by Newton-like equations with Hellman-Feynman forces, while the electronic dynamical variables are complex molecular orbital coefficients that follow equations that look like those of the time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) approximation [24]. The coupling terms in the dynamical metric are the well-known nonadiabatic terms due to the fact that the basis moves with the dynamically changing nuclear positions. 

Before we do so it is worth-while to establish some conventions and terminology in this area. The obvious name for a model of electronic structure which has a time-dependent Hamiltonian and consists of a single determinant of orbit s and remains a single determinant at all times is the Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) model, and this is the terminology which will be used here. However, there is, particularly in the theoretical physics literature, another related usage. Because the use of perturbation theory is so much their stock-in-trade, many theoretical physicists use the term time-dependent Hartree-Fock to mean the first-order (in the sense of perturbation theory) approximation to what we will call the time-dependent Hartree-Fock model. 

The time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) method has a lengthy history as a technique for calculating the electronic excitation energies and transition moments of molecular systems. There are two ways to formulate TDHF theory that look quite different but are in fact equivalent. The formulation used below... 

The simplest polarization propagator corresponds to choosing an HF reference and including only the h2 operator, known as the Random Phase Approximation (RPA), which is identical to Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF), with the corresponding density functional version called Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT). For the static case co= 0) the resulting equations are identical to those obtained from a coupled Hartree-Fock approach (Section 10.5). When used in conjunction with coupled cluster wave functions, the approach is usually called Equation Of Motion (EOM) methods. ... 

Time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory. On the side of the wavefunction-based methods the time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) method can be used to calculated exeitation speetra. The Hartree-Fock method writes the ground-state wavefunction of the system of interest as a single Slater determinant... 

A simple application of the very general approach used in earlier sections leads to the time-dependent generalization of Hartree-Fock theory. The time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) equations (Dirac, 1929) were first formulated variationally by Frenkel (1934) they are also widely used in nuclear physics (see e.g. Thouless, 1%1) under the name random-phase approximation (RPA). Since the equations describe response to a perturbation, as in Section 11.9 but now time-dependent, they will... 

To properly describe electronic rearrangement and its dependence on both nuclear positions and velocities, it is necessary to develop a time-dependent theory of the electronic dynamics in molecular systems. A very useful approximation in this regard is the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation (34). Its combination with the eikonal treatment has been called the Eik/TDHF approximation, and has been implemented for ion-atom collisions.(21, 35-37) Approximations can be systematically developed from time-dependent variational principles.(38-41) These can be stated for wavefunctions and lead to differential equations for time-dependent parameters present in trial wavefunctions. 

SAC-CI Symmetry-adapted-cluster configuration-interaction TDDFT Time-dependent density-functional theory TDHF Time-dependent Hartree-Fock... 

It has recently been shown [ 12] that time-dependent or linear-response theory based on local exchange and correlation potentials is inconsistent in the pure exchange limit with the time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory (TDHF) of Dirac [13] and with the random-phase approximation (RPA) [14] including exchange. The DFT-based exchange-response kernel [15] is inconsistent with the structure of the second-quantized Hamiltonian. 

Table 16 Results for hyperpolarizabilities (in a.u.) for N2- TDHF and MBPT(2) are results from time-dependent Hartree-Fock and perturbation-theory calculations, respectively, whereas CCSD and CCSD(T) are coupled-cluster results. Exp. denotes experimental results, and LDA, GGA, and LB94 are results from time-dependent density-functional calculations with different density functionals. For a description of the quantities, see the text. The results are from ref. 95...

Eshuis et al have implemented fully propagated time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory to calculate the real time electronic dynamics of closed- and open-shell molecules in strong oscillating electric fields. This method has been illustrated on the determination of the frequency-dependent polarizability of ethylene and is shown to converge, in the weak field limit, to the same results as the linearized TDHF method. 

This approximation is better known as the time-dependent Hartree—Fock approximation (TDHF) (McLachlan and Ball, 1964) (see Section 11.1) or random phase approximation (RPA) (Rowe, 1968) and can also be derived as the linear response of an SCF wavefunction, as described in Section 11.2. Furthermore, the structure of the equations is the same as in time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT), although they differ in the expressions for the elements of the Hessian matrix E22. The polarization propagator in the RPA is then given as... 

In Time-dependent Hartree—Fock theory (TDHF) (Langhoff et al., 1972) this derivation is generalized to the time-dependent field of a monochromatic linear polarized radiation in the dipole approximation Eq. (3.76). The molecular orbitals are then also time dependent and are again expanded in the unperturbed orbitals... 

When extended to include electronic correlation, for which an exact but implicit orbital functional was derived above, the TDHF formalism becomes a formally exact theory of linear response. In practice, some simplified orbital functional Ec[ 4>i ] must be used, and the accuracy of results is limited by this choice. The Hartree-Fock operator Ti is replaced by G = Ti + vc. Dirac defines an idempo-tent density operator p whose kernel is JA i(r) i (r/)- The Did. equations are equivalent to [0, p] = 0. The corresponding time-dependent equations are itijtP = [Q(t), p(t)]. Dirac proved, for Hermitian G, (hat the time-dependent equation ih i(rt) implies that p(l) is idempotent. Hence pit) corresponds to a normalized time-dependent reference state. 

The derivation by Dirac [13] of TDHF can be expressed in terms of orbital functional derivatives [12]. This derivation can be extended directly to a formally exact time-dependent orbital-functional theory (TDOFT). The Hartree-Fock operator H is replaced by the OFT operator Q = TL + vc throughout Dirac s derivation. In the linear-response limit, this generalizes the RPA equations [14] to include correlation response [17]. 

As an alternative to Hartree-Fock semiempirical and ab initio calculations, density functional theory has been used to obtain nonlinear optical properties in both the finite field and TDHF > (or time-dependent Kohn-Sham) approaches. 

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