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Dealing with the exponential wall in electronic structure calculations
An alternative to Density Functional Theory are wavefunction based electronic
structure calculations for solids. In order to perform them the Exponential
Wall (EW) problem has to be resolved. It is caused by an exponential increase
of the number of configurations with increasing electron number N. There are
different routes one may follow. One is to characterize a many-electron
wavefunction by a vector in Liouville space with a cumulant metric rather than
in Hilbert space. This removes the EW problem. Another is to model the solid by
an {\it impurity} or {\it fragment} embedded in a {\it bath} which is treated
at a much lower level than the former. This is the case in Density Matrix
Embedding Theory (DMET) or Density Embedding Theory (DET). The latter are
closely related to a Schmidt decomposition of a system and to the determination
of the associated entanglement. We show here the connection between the two
approaches. It turns out that the DMET (or DET) has an identical active space
as a previously used Local Ansatz, based on a projection and partitioning
approach. Yet, the EW problem is resolved differently in the two cases. By
studying a ring these differences are analyzed with the help of the
method of increments.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figure
No slices on the space of generalized connections
On a fiber bundle without structure group the action of the gauge group (the
group of all fiber respecting diffeomorphisms) on the space of (generalized)
connections is shown not to admit slices.Comment: AmSTeX, diag.tex, 7 page
On the mixed Cauchy problem with data on singular conics
We consider a problem of mixed Cauchy type for certain holomorphic partial
differential operators whose principal part essentially is the
(complex) Laplace operator to a power, . We pose inital data on a
singular conic divisor given by P=0, where is a homogeneous polynomial of
degree . We show that this problem is uniquely solvable if the polynomial
is elliptic, in a certain sense, with respect to the principal part
Ab-Initio Calculation of the Metal-Insulator Transition in Lithium rings
We study how the Mott metal-insulator transition (MIT) is affected when we
have to deal with electrons with different angular momentum quantum numbers.
For that purpose we apply ab-initio quantum-chemical methods to lithium rings
in order to investigate the analogue of a MIT. By changing the interatomic
distance we analyse the character of the many-body wavefunction and discuss the
importance of the orbital quasi-degeneracy within the metallic regime.
The charge gap (ionization potential minus electron affinity) shows a minimum
and the static electric dipole polarizability has a pronounced maximum at a
lattice constant where the character of the wavefunction changes from
significant to essentially -type. In addition, we examine rings with
bond alternation in order to answer the question under which conditions a
Peierls distortion occurs.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figure
Obtaining Wannier Functions of a Crystalline Insulator within a Hartree-Fock approach: Applications to LiF and LiCl
An ab initio Hartree-Fock approach aimed at directly obtaining the localized
orthogonal orbitals (Wannier functions) of a crystalline insulator is described
in detail. The method is used to perform all-electron calculations on the
ground states of crystalline lithium fluoride and lithium chloride, without the
use of any pseudo or model potentials. Quantities such as total energy, x-ray
structure factors and Compton profiles obtained using the localized
Hartree-Fock orbitals are shown to be in excellent agreement with the
corresponding quantities calculated using the conventional Bloch-orbital based
Hartree-Fock approach. Localization characteristics of these orbitals are also
discussed in detail.Comment: 39 Pages, RevTex, 4 postscript figures, to appear in PRB15, January
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Wavefunction-based correlated ab initio calculations on crystalline solids
We present a wavefunction-based approach to correlated ab initio calculations
on crystalline insulators of infinite extent. It uses the representation of the
occupied and the unoccupied (virtual) single-particle states of the infinite
solid in terms of Wannier functions. Electron correlation effects are evaluated
by considering virtual excitations from a small region in and around the
reference cell, keeping the electrons of the rest of the infinite crystal
frozen at the Hartree-Fock level. The method is applied to study the ground
state properties of the LiH crystal, and is shown to yield rapidly convergent
results.Comment: 6 pages, RevTex, to appear in Phys. Rev.
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