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Title: Normal-ordered second-quantized Hamiltonian for molecular vibrations

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901061· OSTI ID:22415343
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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (United States)

A normal-ordered second-quantized form of the Hamiltonian is derived for quantum dynamics in a bound potential energy surface expressed as a Taylor series in an arbitrary set of orthogonal, delocalized coordinates centered at an arbitrary geometry. The constant, first-, and second-order excitation amplitudes of this Hamiltonian are identified as the ground-state energy, gradients, and frequencies, respectively, of the size-extensive vibrational self-consistent field (XVSCF) method or the self-consistent phonon method. They display the well-defined size dependence of V{sup 1−n/2}, where V is the volume and n is the number of coordinates associated with the amplitudes. It is used to rapidly derive the equations of XVSCF and vibrational many-body perturbation methods with the Møller–Plesset partitioning of the Hamiltonian.

OSTI ID:
22415343
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 141, Issue 18; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English