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Physical Review A

Matrix elements of a spin-adapted reduced Hamiltonian

Jacek Karwowski, Włodzisław Duch, Carmela Valdemoro

Published Apr 1, 1986• 50 citations
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Abstract

A formalism based on the unitary- and symmetric-group approaches to configuration-interaction methods has been applied to an evaluation of matrix elements of a spin-adapted reduced Hamiltonian (SRH). It has been shown that there is a simple closed-form expression for the matrix elements of the SRH matrices. This formula has been expressed as a linear combination of two-electron integrals with coefficients given as explicit functions of the parameters defining the finite-dimensional Hilbert space (number of orbitals, number of electrons, and the total spin quantum number).

DOI
10.1103/physreva.33.2254

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The spin-adapted pth-order reduced Hamiltonians (SRH) are obtained for an m-electron system, within the formalism of second quantization. This transformation is applied to the usual many-body Hamiltonian and involves an augmenting mapping, a spin projection, and a reducing mapping into the p-body reduced space. These three operations are combined into a single algorithm, allowing the work to be carried out within the two-body space. The SRH matrices thus obtained (1) have the same trace as that of the corresponding full configuration-interaction (CI) matrix, and (2) can be written as expansions involving the p eigenvalues and the corresponding pth-order reduced density matrices (RDM) of the m-body system in the chosen spin symmetry. Both of these properties guarantee that all and only the relevant information about our system is contained in the SRH matrices (and the SRH operators). The excitations of the eigenstates of the 1-SRH and the 2-SRH can be interpreted as the normal modes (or elementary excitations) of our electronic system in a given symmetry. A preliminary calculation on the Be atom yields encouraging results when compared with experiment. In the following paper (paper II of this series) the theory is applied to obtain the total energy and the reduced density matrices.
A fully spin-adapted approach to many-electron density matrices is developed in the context of the unitary group approach to many-electron systems. An explicit expression for the single-electron spin-density operator, as a polynomial of degree two in the orbital U(n) generators, is derived for the case of spin-independent systems. Extensions to spin-dependent systems are also considered, leading to the appearance of total-spin transition densities, whose general properties are investigated. A corresponding formalism for the two-electron density matrix, which is capable of further generalization, is also developed. The results of this paper, together with recent developments on the matrix elements of the U(2n) generators in the electronic Gel’fand basis, afford a versatile method for the direct calculation of one- and two-body density matrices in the unitary group approach framework.
In the formalism of reduced density matrices and functions, using the irreducible tensor-operator technique and the space-spin separation scheme, the matrix elements of one of the main spin-relativistic corrections of the Breit-Pauli Hamiltonian, the spin-orbit interactions, are expressed in a form suitable for numeric implementation. A comparison with other methods is made and the advantages of such an approach are discussed. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.