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Variational Ansatz for effective Hamiltonians: solution of convergence problem via the intermediate Hamiltonian approach

✍ Scribed by F.X. Gadéa; A.V. Zaitsevskii


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Weight
454 KB
Volume
191
Category
Article
ISSN
0009-2614

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✦ Synopsis


The variational intermediate Hamiltonian approach is developed on the basis of the quasi-Rayleigh-Schrijdinger quasidegenerate perturbation theory. The results of test applications to ab initio calculations of molecular excited states are discussed. The new approach is able to produce rapidly and monotonically convergent sequences of energy estimates while the ordinary variational effective Hamiltonian method suffers from catastrophic divergencies in the presence of intruder states.