Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
1998-05-29
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
New figures, better converged results
Scientific paper
We explore a new class of computationally feasible approximations of the two-body density matrix as a finite sum of tensor products of single-particle operators. Physical symmetries then uniquely determine the two-body matrix in terms of the one-body matrix. Representing dynamical correlation alone as a single tensor product results in a theory which predicts near zero dynamical correlation in the homogeneous electron gas at moderate to high densities. But, representing both dynamical and statistical correlation effects together as a tensor product leads to the recently proposed ``natural orbital functional.'' We find that this latter theory has some asymptotic properties consistent with established many-body theory but is no more accurate than Hartee-Fock in describing the homogeneous electron gas for the range of densities typically found in the valence regions of solids. PACS 71.10.-w 71.15.Mb, Accepted for publication in Physical Review B
Arias Tomás A.
Csanyi Gabor
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