Correlated geminal wave function for molecules: An efficient resonating valence bond approach

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 121, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 7110-7126

  Casula, Michele ^a,b   Attaccalite, Claudio ^a,b   Sorella, Sandro ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BINDING ENERGY; CHEMICAL BONDS; CORRELATION METHODS; HYDROGEN; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ATOMIC WAVE FUNCTIONS; JASTROW CORRELATION TERM; SLATER DETERMINANTS; VALENCE BONDS;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 8344267875     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1794632     Document Type: Article

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