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Computation of Atmospheric Concentrations of Molecular Clusters from ab initio Thermochemistry
Published on: April 8, 2020
The ground state correlation energy of the random phase approximation from a ring coupled cluster doubles approach
Gustavo E Scuseria1, Thomas M Henderson, Danny C Sorensen
1Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA. guscus@rice.edu
Abstract:
We present an analytic proof demonstrating the equivalence between the random phase approximation (RPA) to the ground state correlation energy and a ring-diagram simplification of the coupled cluster doubles (CCD) equations. In the CCD framework, the RPA equations can be solved in O(N(4)) computational effort, where N is proportional to the number of basis functions.
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