New measure of electron correlation
Quantum Physics
2009-11-11 v3
Abstract
We propose to quantify the "correlation" inherent in a many-electron (or many-fermion) wavefunction by comparing it to the unique uncorrelated state that has the same single-particle density operator as it does.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0503098,
title = {New measure of electron correlation},
author = {Alex D. Gottlieb and Norbert J. Mauser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0503098},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Final version to appear in PRL