Stability Conditions for the Solutions of the Hartree—Fock Equations for Atomic and Molecular Systems. Application to the Pi‐Electron Model of Cyclic Polyenes

1967 ◽  
Vol 47 (10) ◽  
pp. 3976-3985 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Čížek ◽  
J. Paldus
1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 1121-1130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman F. Nalewajski ◽  
Janusz Mrozek ◽  
Grzegorz Mazur

The recently introduced quadratic (two-electron) valence indices, ionic and covalent, derived from the Hartree–Fock finite-difference approach, are applied to selected organic and inorganic molecules to demonstrate their utility in monitoring chemical bonding patterns in molecular systems. The indices are defined in terms of differerences between simultaneous probabilities of finding two electrons on specified atoms, calculated from the molecular and separated-atom-limit (SAL) wave functions, respectively, in the UHF approximation. The total quadratic valence number represents the overall number of chemical bonds in the system under consideration; it is interpreted as the molecular expectation value of the difference operator of the molecular and SAL density operators. This interpretation leads to a new set of ionic atomic and diatomic valence components; these modified valence numbers are discussed using the two-orbital model in the UHF scheme. A new procedure is proposed for dividing the one-center contributions to the bond valences; it generates effective bond orders in qood agreement with chemical expectations. The new valence quantities are tested on selected typical molecules and prototype hydrogen-bonded dimers. A more extensive study has been carried out on small-ring propellanes, to examine changes in bond valences between bridgehead atoms in selected systems. Key words: chemical valence: UHF difference approach; chemical bond: two-electron model; bond multiplicities; ionic/covalent bond components; propellanes: valence study.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Mniszewski ◽  
Pavel A. Dub ◽  
Sergei Tretiak ◽  
Petr M. Anisimov ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
...  

AbstractQuantum chemistry is interested in calculating ground and excited states of molecular systems by solving the electronic Schrödinger equation. The exact numerical solution of this equation, frequently represented as an eigenvalue problem, remains unfeasible for most molecules and requires approximate methods. In this paper we introduce the use of Quantum Community Detection performed using the D-Wave quantum annealer to reduce the molecular Hamiltonian matrix in Slater determinant basis without chemical knowledge. Given a molecule represented by a matrix of Slater determinants, the connectivity between Slater determinants (as off-diagonal elements) is viewed as a graph adjacency matrix for determining multiple communities based on modularity maximization. A gauge metric based on perturbation theory is used to determine the lowest energy cluster. This cluster or sub-matrix of Slater determinants is used to calculate approximate ground state and excited state energies within chemical accuracy. The details of this method are described along with demonstrating its performance across multiple molecules of interest and bond dissociation cases. These examples provide proof-of-principle results for approximate solution of the electronic structure problem using quantum computing. This approach is general and shows potential to reduce the computational complexity of post-Hartree–Fock methods as future advances in quantum hardware become available.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Paquet ◽  
Herna L. Viktor

Ab initio molecular dynamics is an irreplaceable technique for the realistic simulation of complex molecular systems and processes from first principles. This paper proposes a comprehensive and self-contained review of ab initio molecular dynamics from a computational perspective and from first principles. Quantum mechanics is presented from a molecular dynamics perspective. Various approximations and formulations are proposed, including the Ehrenfest, Born–Oppenheimer, and Hartree–Fock molecular dynamics. Subsequently, the Kohn–Sham formulation of molecular dynamics is introduced as well as the afferent concept of density functional. As a result, Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics is discussed, together with its extension to isothermal and isobaric processes. Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics is then reformulated in terms of path integrals. Finally, some implementation issues are analysed, namely, the pseudopotential, the orbital functional basis, and hybrid molecular dynamics.


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