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Electron correlation: The many-body problem at the heart of chemistry

✍ Scribed by David P. Tew; Wim Klopper; Trygve Helgaker

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
657 KB
Volume
28
Category
Article
ISSN
0192-8651

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Abstract

The physical interactions among electrons and nuclei, responsible for the chemistry of atoms and molecules, is well described by quantum mechanics and chemistry is therefore fully described by the solutions of the Schrödinger equation. In all but the simplest systems we must be content with approximate solutions, the principal difficulty being the treatment of the correlation between the motions of the many electrons, arising from their mutual repulsion. This article aims to provide a clear understanding of the physical concept of electron correlation and the modern methods used for its approximation. Using helium as a simple case study and beginning with an uncorrelated orbital picture of electronic motion, we first introduce Fermi correlation, arising from the symmetry requirements of the exact wave function, and then consider the Coulomb correlation arising from the mutual Coulomb repulsion between the electrons. Finally, we briefly discuss the general treatment of electron correlation in modern electronic‐structure theory, focussing on the Hartree‐Fock and coupled‐cluster methods and addressing static and dynamical Coulomb correlation. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 28: 1307–1320, 2007

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