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On the identification of symmetry-forbidden spin subspaces for configurations employing nonorthogonal orbitals

✍ Scribed by Fabio E. Penotti


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
286 KB
Volume
78
Category
Article
ISSN
0020-7608

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✦ Synopsis


The implications of orbital symmetry for a configuration's spin function are considered from the fairly general viewpoint required for multiconfiguration wave functions employing nonorthogonal orbitals. A general procedure is derived for the imposition of the spin constraints that may be necessary to ensure a given configuration, or a set of configurations as a whole, exhibit required symmetry properties, thus preventing symmetry contamination of the overall electronic wave function.