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A study of cumulant approximations to n-electron valence multireference perturbation theory

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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 130, Issue 19, Pages -

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AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3132922

Keywords

bond lengths; chromium; electron correlations; nitrogen; organic compounds; perturbation theory; silicon compounds

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  1. National Science Foundation [CHE-0645380]
  2. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-07ER46432]
  3. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-07ER46432] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

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We investigate the possibility of reducing the complexity of multireference perturbation theory through cumulant based approximations to the high-order density matrices that appear in such theories. Our test cases show that while the cumulant approximated forms are degraded in accuracy relative to the parent theory and exhibit intruder state problems that must be carefully handled, they may provide a route to a simple estimation of dynamic correlation when the parent perturbation theory is infeasible. Nonetheless, further work is clearly needed on better approximations to the denominators in the perturbation theory.

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