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Thermal mean-field theories
1Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
Abstract:
Several closely related ab initio thermal mean-field theories for fermions, both well-established and new ones, are compared with one another at the formalism level and numerically. The theories considered are Fermi-Dirac theory; thermal Hartree-Fock (HF) theory; two modifications of the thermal single-determinant approximation of Kaplan and Argyres, Ann. Phys. 92, 1-24 (1975); and the first-order finite-temperature many-body perturbation theory based on a zero-temperature or thermal HF reference. Thermal full-configuration-interaction theory is used as the benchmark.
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