Generalized elimination of the global translation from explicitly correlated Gaussian functions

This paper presents the multi-channel generalization of the center-of-mass kinetic energy elimination approach [Mol. Phys., 111 2086 (2013)] when the Schr\"odinger equation is solved variationally with explicitly correlated Gaussian functions. The approach has immediate relevance in many-particle systems which are handled without the Born--Oppenheimer approximation and can be employed also for Dirac-type Hamiltonians. The practical realization and numerical properties of solving the Schr\"odinger equation in laboratory-frame Cartesian coordinates are demonstrated for the ground rovibronic state of the H$_2^+=\lbrace\text{p}^+,\text{p}^+,\text{e}^+\rbrace$ ion and the H$_2=\lbrace\text{p}^+,\text{p}^+,\text{e}^+,\text{e}^+\rbrace$ molecule.Comment: 24 pages, 1 figure, 2 table

Potenzialità dei sistemi CAD per la flessibilità dei sistemi produttivi

In questo lavoro è stata svolta una ricerca bibliografica su alcuni aspetti del software CAD che ne hanno evidenziato la sua fondamentale importanza negli odierni ambienti di lavoro, i quali devono far fronte alle esigenze diversificate del consumatore e a un mercato sempre più concorrenziale. E’ stata posta l’attenzione su aspetti che possono rendere flessibile un sistema produttivo migliorandone efficienza ed efficacia dei vari reparti: progettazione, produzione, assemblaggio ecc. In particolare si è visto come sono di grande utilità le tecniche di: prototipazione rapida, che porta vantaggi in termini di tempo e di costi nella fase di progettazione ed assemblaggio; di AR e VR (Augmented and Virtual Reality) che aiutano i progettisti nella pianificare la sequenza di assemblaggio attraverso la manipolazione di prototipi virtuali in un ambiente di lavoro di montaggio vero e proprio. Poi si è fatto riferimento alla tecnica CAPP (Computer Aided Process Planning) che permette l’integrazione tra la fase di progettazione CAD e fabbricazione CAM, ovvero di definire il ciclo di lavoro, cioè la sequenza delle operazioni, a partire dalle informazioni geometriche e tecnologiche associate al modello tridimensionale del pezzo. Infine è stato introdotto il concetto di sistema produttivo riconfigurabile RMS (Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems), che è emerso negli ultimi anni come evoluzione dell’FMS (Flexible Manufacturing Systems), e si è evidenziato come questo sia la strada da seguire per rispondere rapidamente alle mutevoli esigenze e ottenere vantaggi di mercato

New Approaches for ab initio Calculations of Molecules with Strong Electron Correlation

Reliable quantum chemical methods for the description of molecules with dense-lying frontier orbitals are needed in the context of many chemical compounds and reactions. Here, we review developments that led to our newcomputational toolbo x which implements the quantum chemical density matrix renormalization group in a second-generation algorithm. We present an overview of the different components of this toolbox.Comment: 19 pages, 1 tabl

Explicitly correlated Gaussian functions with shifted-center and projection techniques in pre-Born-Oppenheimer calculations

Numerical projection methods are elaborated for the calculation of eigenstates of the non-relativistic many-particle Coulomb Hamiltonian with selected rotational and parity quantum numbers employing shifted explicitly correlated Gaussian functions, which are, in general, not eigenfunctions of the total angular momentum and parity operators. The increased computational cost of numerically projecting the basis functions onto the irreducible representations of the three dimensional rotation-inversion group is the price to pay for the increased flexibility of the basis functions. This increased flexibility allowed us to achieve a substantial improvement for the variational upper bound to the Pauli-allowed ground-state energy of the H$_3^+=\{$p$^+,$p$^+,$p$^+,$e$^-,$e$^-\}$ molecular ion treated as an explicit five-particle system. We compare our pre-Born-Oppenheimer result for this molecular ion with rovibrational results including non-adiabatic corrections.Comment: 29 pages, 3 figures, 4 table

Boltzmann-conserving classical dynamics in quantum time-correlation functions: "Matsubara dynamics".

We show that a single change in the derivation of the linearized semiclassical-initial value representation (LSC-IVR or "classical Wigner approximation") results in a classical dynamics which conserves the quantum Boltzmann distribution. We rederive the (standard) LSC-IVR approach by writing the (exact) quantum time-correlation function in terms of the normal modes of a free ring-polymer (i.e., a discrete imaginary-time Feynman path), taking the limit that the number of polymer beads N → ∞, such that the lowest normal-mode frequencies take their "Matsubara" values. The change we propose is to truncate the quantum Liouvillian, not explicitly in powers of ħ(2) at ħ(0) (which gives back the standard LSC-IVR approximation), but in the normal-mode derivatives corresponding to the lowest Matsubara frequencies. The resulting "Matsubara" dynamics is inherently classical (since all terms O(ħ(2)) disappear from the Matsubara Liouvillian in the limit N → ∞) and conserves the quantum Boltzmann distribution because the Matsubara Hamiltonian is symmetric with respect to imaginary-time translation. Numerical tests show that the Matsubara approximation to the quantum time-correlation function converges with respect to the number of modes and gives better agreement than LSC-IVR with the exact quantum result. Matsubara dynamics is too computationally expensive to be applied to complex systems, but its further approximation may lead to practical methods.T.J.H.H., M.J.W., and S.C.A. acknowledge funding from the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. A.M. acknowledges the European Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) for an Erasmus student placement scholarship. T.J.H.H. also acknowledges a Research Fellowship from Jesus College, Cambridge and helpful discussions with Dr. Adam Harper.This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from AIP via http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.491631