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Method for making 2-electron response reduced density matrices approximately N-representable

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Caitlin Lanssens *
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Paul W. Ayers
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Dimitri Van Neck
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Stijn De Baerdemacker
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Klaas Gunst
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Patrick Bultinck
DOI:10.1063/1.4994618delete
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In methods like geminal-based approaches or coupled cluster that are solved using the projected Schrodinger equation, direct computation of the 2-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM) is impractical and one falls back to a 2-RDM based on response theory. However, the 2-RDMs from response theory are not N-representable. That is, the response 2-RDM does not correspond to an actual physical N-electron wave function. We present a new algorithm for making these non-N-representable 2-RDMs approximately N-representable, i.e., it has the right symmetry and normalization and it ful-fills the P-, Q-, and G-conditions. Next to an algorithm which can be applied to any 2-RDM, we have also developed a 2-RDM optimization procedure specifically for seniority-zero 2-RDMs. We aim to find the 2-RDM with the right properties which is the closest (in the sense of the Frobenius norm) to the non-N-representable 2-RDM by minimizing the square norm of the difference between this initial response 2-RDM and the targeted 2-RDM under the constraint that the trace is normalized and the 2-RDM, Q-matrix, and G-matrix are positive semidefinite, i.e., their eigenvalues are non-negative. Our method is suitable for fixing non-N-representable 2-RDMs which are close to being N-representable. Through the N-representability optimization algorithm we add a small correction to the initial 2-RDM such that it fulfills the most important N-representability conditions. Published by AIP Publishing.
Keywords:
WAVE-FUNCTIONS
OPTIMIZATION
MOLECULES
CHEMISTRY
SYSTEMS
ENERGY
ATOMS
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Journal of Chemical Physics
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Ghent University
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McMaster University
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