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Exact Entanglement correlation complements the chemical bond description

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2024-06-11 v1

Abstract

We analyze the properties of the exact solution obtained by us recently for the extended Hetiler-London model for chemical bonding which has an analytic form. The emphasis is put on defining two-particle entanglement correlation as the complementary characterization of the chemical bond and relating it to the partial atomicity and the so-called true covalency. The newly introduced characteristics remove the deficiency of the standard definition of covalency which now vanishes in the limit of the separated atoms. In effect, a gradual evolution of the system of two indistinguishable electrons in a bound state into their distinguishable correspondents can be traced systematically. The present analysis has a universal meaning and may also be applied to more complex systems.

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@article{arxiv.2406.06171,
  title  = {Exact Entanglement correlation complements the chemical bond description},
  author = {Józef Spałek and Maciej Hendzel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.06171},
  year   = {2024}
}
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