Lee Nicholas, Thom Alex J W
Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, U.K.
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, U.K.
J Chem Theory Comput. 2023 Sep 12;19(17):5743-5759. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00046. Epub 2023 Aug 28.
We investigate the possibility of using a transcorrelated (TC) Hamiltonian to describe electron correlation. A method to obtain TC wavefunctions was developed based on the mathematical framework of the bi-variational principle. This involves the construction of an effective TC Hamiltonian matrix, which can be solved in a self-consistent manner. This was optimized using a method we call second-order-moment minimization and demonstrate that it is possible to obtain highly accurate energies for some closed-shell atoms and helium-like ions. The effects of certain correlator terms on the description of electron-electron and electron-nuclear cusps were also examined graphically, and some TC wavefunctions were compared against near-exact Hylleraas wavefunctions.
我们研究了使用互相关(TC)哈密顿量来描述电子相关性的可能性。基于双变分原理的数学框架,开发了一种获得TC波函数的方法。这涉及构建一个有效的TC哈密顿矩阵,该矩阵可以自洽的方式求解。使用我们称为二阶矩最小化的方法对其进行了优化,并证明对于一些闭壳层原子和类氦离子可以获得高精度的能量。还通过图形检查了某些相关项对电子 - 电子和电子 - 核尖点描述的影响,并将一些TC波函数与近乎精确的海勒拉斯波函数进行了比较。