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Thermofield theory for finite-temperature coupled cluster

Chemical Physics 2020-05-14 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We present a coupled cluster and linear response theory to compute properties of many-electron systems at non-zero temperatures. For this purpose, we make use of the thermofield dynamics, which allows for a compact wavefunction representation of the thermal density matrix, and extend our recently developed framework [J. Chem. Phys. 150, 154109 (2019)] to parameterize the so-called thermal state using an exponential ansatz with cluster operators that create thermal quasiparticle excitations on a mean-field reference. As benchmark examples, we apply this method to both model (one-dimensional Hubbard and Pairing) as well as ab-initio (atomic Beryllium and molecular Hydrogen) systems, while comparing with exact results.

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@article{arxiv.1907.11286,
  title  = {Thermofield theory for finite-temperature coupled cluster},
  author = {Gaurav Harsha and Thomas M. Henderson and Gustavo E. Scuseria},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.11286},
  year   = {2020}
}

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11 pages, 6 figures

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