Resonating valence bond wave function with molecular orbitals: application to first-row molecules.
Resonating valence bond wave function with molecular orbitals: application to first-row molecules.
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与分子轨道共振价键波函数:应用于第一行分子。
DOI:
10.1063/1.3249966
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发表时间:
2009
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通讯作者:
S. Sorella
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作者:
M. Marchi;Sam Azadi;M. Casula;S. Sorella
We introduce a method for accurate quantum chemical calculations based on a simple variational wave function, defined by a single geminal that couples all the electrons into singlet pairs, combined with a real space correlation factor. The method uses a constrained variational optimization, based on an expansion of the geminal in terms of molecular orbitals. It is shown that the most relevant nondynamical correlations are correctly reproduced once an appropriate number n of molecular orbitals is considered. The value of n is determined by requiring that, in the atomization limit, the atoms are described by Hartree-Fock Slater determinants with Jastrow correlations. The energetics, as well as other physical and chemical properties, are then given by an efficient variational approach based on standard quantum Monte Carlo techniques. We test this method on a set of homonuclear (Be(2), B(2), C(2), N(2), O(2), and F(2)) and heteronuclear (LiF and CN) dimers for which strong nondynamical correlations and/or weak van der Waals interactions are present.