Projected coupled cluster theory
Journal Article
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· Journal of Chemical Physics
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; none
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
Coupled cluster theory is the method of choice for weakly correlated systems. But in the strongly correlated regime, it faces a symmetry dilemma, where it either completely fails to describe the system or has to artificially break certain symmetries. On the other hand, projected Hartree-Fock theory captures the essential physics of many kinds of strong correlations via symmetry breaking and restoration. Here, we combine and try to retain the merits of these two methods by applying symmetry projection to broken symmetry coupled cluster wave functions. The non-orthogonal nature of states resulting from the application of symmetry projection operators furnishes particle-hole excitations to all orders, thus creating an obstacle for the exact evaluation of overlaps. Here we provide a solution via a disentanglement framework theory that can be approximated rigorously and systematically. Results of projected coupled cluster theory are presented for molecules and the Hubbard model, showing that spin projection significantly improves unrestricted coupled cluster theory while restoring good quantum numbers. The energy of projected coupled cluster theory reduces to the unprojected one in the thermodynamic limit, albeit at a much slower rate than projected Hartree-Fock.
- Research Organization:
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States); Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States). Center for the Computational Design of Functional Layered Materials (CCDM)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22); Welch Foundation
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012575
- OSTI ID:
- 1474042
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1374781
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Chemical Physics Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 147; ISSN 0021-9606
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
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Hubbard parameter
correlated electrons
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operator theory
self consistent field methods
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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
Hubbard parameter
correlated electrons
correlation-consistent basis sets
coupled-cluster methods
full configuration interaction
many electron systems
operator theory
self consistent field methods
statistical thermodynamics
zero point energy