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Richardson-Gaudin geminal wavefunctions in a Slater determinant basis

Chemical Physics 2020-09-18 v1

Abstract

Geminal wavefunctions have been employed to model strongly-correlated electrons. These wavefunctions represent products of weakly-correlated pairs of electrons and reasonable approximations are computable with polynomial cost. In particular, Richardson-Gaudin states have recently been employed as a variational ansatz. This contribution serves to explain the Richardson-Gaudin wavefunctions in the conventional language of quantum chemistry.

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@article{arxiv.2009.08349,
  title  = {Richardson-Gaudin geminal wavefunctions in a Slater determinant basis},
  author = {Charles-Émile Fecteau and Frédéric Berthiaume and Meriem Khalfoun and Paul Andrew Johnson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.08349},
  year   = {2020}
}
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