Guidelines on the Contracted Schrödinger Equation Methodology

Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 18, Issue , 2008, Pages 175-201

  Valdemoro, Carmela ^a   Alcoba, Diego Ricardo ^b   Tel, Luis Maria ^c   Pérez Romero, Encarnación ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA FUNDAMENTAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

anti Hermitian Contracted schr dinger equation; Contracted Schr dinger equation; Correlation matrix; electronic correlation effects; N and S representability; reduced density matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349533610     PISSN: 15677354     EISSN: 22150129     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8707-3_6     Document Type: Chapter

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