Explicit correlation factors

Autor: Cole M. Johnson, So Hirata, Seiichiro Ten-no
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Chemical Physics Letters. 683:247-252
ISSN: 0009-2614
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2017.02.072
Popis: We analyze the performance of 17 different correlation factors in explicitly correlated second-order many-body perturbation calculations for correlation energies. Highly performing correlation factors are found to have near-universal shape and size in the short range of electron-electron distance ( 0 r 12 1.5 a.u.). The long-range behavior ( r 12 > 1.5 a.u.) is insignificant insofar as the factor becomes near constant, leaving an orbital expansion to describe decoupled electrons. An analysis based on a low-rank Taylor expansion of the correlation factor seems limited, except that a negative second derivative with the value of around −1.3 a.u. correlates with high performance.
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