Journal
MOLECULAR PHYSICS
Volume 114, Issue 5, Pages 577-583Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2015.1115903
Keywords
Strong correlation; coupled cluster; quantum Monte Carlo; geminals
Funding
- US Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- University of California
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The cluster Jastrow antisymmetric geminal power ansatz was recently introduced as a promising approach for treating weak and strong electron correlations simultaneously. One crucial aspect of this ansatz is that the Jastrow operator allows the geminal power to achieve size consistency through the deletion of unphysical ionic terms. Here, we present data suggesting that the effects of such deletions go much deeper, causing the geminal to 'intentionally' take on a highly unphysical form that, in the presence of the Jastrow's deletions, nonetheless results in an accurate final wave function, a process that we note is similar to the variation-after-projection approach of projected Hartree-Fock theory. Indeed, in both LiF and N-2, we show that the optimal geminal is quite unphysical if considered on its own, but in ways that the Jastrow easily corrects to yield a highly accurate final wave function.
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