Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
2003, 68, 331-339
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc20030331
Optimized Quasiparticle Energies in Many-Body Perturbation Theory
Peter R. Surján*, Dóra Kőhalmi and Ágnes Szabados
Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Eötvös University, H-1518 Budapest 112, P.O. Box 32, Hungary
Abstract
For the calculation of the electron correlation energy, usual Koopmans one-electron energies (used in Møller-Plesset partitioning) are replaced by energy-optimized ones to form the denominators of the many-body perturbation theory. Changing these quasiparticle energies can be interpreted as applying special level shifts to the zero-order Hamiltonian, thus it is related to the problem of partitioning in the perturbation theory. The energy functional chosen to be optimized with respect to the quasiparticle energies is the Rayleigh quotient evaluated with the first-order wavefunction Ansatz, expanded up to the third order. The resulting level shifts preserve size extensivity of the many-body perturbation theory.
Keywords: Many-body perturbation theory (MBPT); Level shifts; Optimized partitioning; Effective one-electron energies; Quasiparticle energies; Quantum chemistry; Correlation energy; Configuration interaction; Hamiltonian.
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