The Journal of Chemical Physics
Variational localized-site cluster expansions. II. Trees and near trees
Douglas J. Klein, M. A. García‐Bach
Abstract
Cluster expanded wavefunctions involving localized-site states and only pair excitations between nearest neighbor sites are considered. In the case that the bonds connecting these nearest neighbor sites form a tree graph (without rings), exact matrix element formulas are obtained in terms of the inverse of a modified type of topological matrix associated with this tree graph. The treatment of some near-tree cases, without any touching rings, is also discussed.