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To go beyond "mean field approximation" and beyond representability by slater detierminants there is:
 
To go beyond "mean field approximation" and beyond representability by slater detierminants there is:
 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93Hartree%E2%80%93Fock Post–Hartree–Fock]
 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93Hartree%E2%80%93Fock Post–Hartree–Fock]
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Completely different methods:
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Electronic_structure_methods Category:Electronic_structure_methods]

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The following is basically taken from wikipedia and reformulated in an hopefully more readable way.

Assumptions:

  • the exact N-body wave function of the system can be approximated by a single Slater determinant
  • the wave function is a single configuration state function with well-defined quantum numbers
  • a quantum many-body system in a stationary state BUT the energy level is not necessarily the ground state
  • Restricted Hartree–Fock method: The atom or molecule is a closed-shell system with all orbitals doubly occupied.

Approximations:

  • atomic cores as static point particles: Born–Oppenheimer approximation
  • nonrelativistic (classical momentum operator)
  • all energy eigenfunctions are describable by Slater-determinants. One Slater-determinant per eigenfunction.
  • An electron "sees" all other electrons as an averaged out density cloud.
    This is the mean field approximation
    => Coulomb correlation part of electron correlation is not accounted for
    => The Hartree–Fock cannot capture London dispersion

Accounted for:

  • Fermi correlation part of electron correlation (which is an effect of electron exchange)

External links



More advanced metods for when there are unpaired electrons:


To go beyond "mean field approximation" and beyond representability by slater detierminants there is:


Completely different methods: