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Nuclear-Electronic All-Particle Density Matrix Renormalization Group

Chemical Physics 2020-05-29 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Computational Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We introduce the Nuclear Electronic All-Particle Density Matrix Renormalization Group (NEAP-DMRG) method for solving the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation simultaneously for electrons and other quantum species. In contrast to already existing multicomponent approaches, in this work we construct from the outset a multi-reference trial wave function with stochastically optimized non-orthogonal Gaussian orbitals. By iterative refining of the Gaussians' positions and widths, we obtain a compact multi-reference expansion for the multicomponent wave function. We extend the DMRG algorithm to multicomponent wave functions to take into account inter- and intra-species correlation effects. The efficient parametrization of the total wave function as a matrix product state allows NEAP-DMRG to accurately approximate full configuration interaction energies of molecular systems with more than three nuclei and twelve particles in total, which is currently a major challenge for other multicomponent approaches. We present NEAP-DMRG results for two few-body systems, i.e., H2_2 and H3+_3^+, and one larger system, namely BH3_3

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@article{arxiv.2003.04446,
  title  = {Nuclear-Electronic All-Particle Density Matrix Renormalization Group},
  author = {Andrea Muolo and Alberto Baiardi and Robin Feldmann and Markus Reiher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.04446},
  year   = {2020}
}

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37 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables

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