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In this paper we motivate, formulate and analyze the Multi-Configuration Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock (MCTDHF) equations for molecular systems under Coulomb interaction. They consist in approximating the N-particle Schrodinger wavefunction…
A method to solve the Schr\"{o}dinger equation based on the use of constant particle-particle interaction potential surfaces is proposed. The many-body wave function is presented in configuration interaction form with coefficients -…
We investigate the existence of holomorphic Hartree-Fock solutions using a revised SCF algorithm. We use this algorithm to study the Hartree-Fock solutions for H$_{2}$ and H$_{4}^{2+}$ and report the emergence of holomorphic solutions at…
A modified version of the Moller-Plesset approach for obtaining the correlation energy associated to a Hartree-Fock ground state is proposed. The method is tested in a model of interacting fermions that allows for an exact solution. Using…
The multiconfiguration methods are widely used by quantum physicists and chemists for numerical approximation of the many electron Schr\"odinger equation. Recently, first mathematically rigorous results were obtained on the time-dependent…
Finite dimensional solutions to a class of stochastic partial differential equations are obtained extending the differential constraints method for deterministic PDE to the stochastic framework. A geometrical reformulation of the stochastic…
We consider the exact solution of a many-body problem of spin-$s$ particles interacting through an arbitrary U(1) invariant factorizable $S$-matrix. The solution is based on a unified formulation of the quantum inverse scattering method for…
We show that there is an one-to-one correspondence between solutions to the Poisson-Landscape equations and the reduced Hartree-Fock equations in the semi-classical limit at low temperature. Moreover, we prove that the difference between…
We investigate a reformulation of the dynamics of interacting fermion systems in terms of a stochastic extension of Time Dependent Hartree-Fock equations. The noise is found from a path-integral representation of the evolution operator and…
We develop a variational approach at finite temperature that incorporates many-body correlation self-consistently. The grand potential is constructed in terms of Green's function expressed by the variational parameters. We apply this…
We present a simple and stable numerical method to approximate the ground state of a quantum many-body system by multiple determinant states. This method searches these determinant states one by one according to the matching pursuit…
We present and compare several many-body methods as applied to two-dimensional quantum dots with circular symmetry. We calculate the approximate ground state energy using a harmonic oscillator basis optimized by Hartree-Fock (HF) theory and…
Starting with a bare nucleon-nucleon interaction, for the first time the full relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock equations are solved for finite nuclei in a Dirac-Woods-Saxon basis. No free parameters are introduced to calculate the…
By introducing a set of auxiliary equations representing a many-body system, we have derived an extension of the Kohn-Sham scheme for the density functional theory. These equations consist of a Kohn-Sham-type equation determining…
The development of reliable ab initio methods for light-matter strong coupling is necessary for a deeper understanding of molecular polaritons. The recently developed strong coupling quantum electrodynamics Hartree-Fock model (SC-QED-HF)…
A ubiquitous problem in quantum physics is to understand the ground-state properties of many-body systems. Confronted with the fact that exact diagonalisation quickly becomes impossible when increasing the system size, variational…
A comprehensive theoretical understanding of electron-photon correlation is essential for describing the reshaping of molecular orbitals in quantum electrodynamics (QED) environments. The strong coupling QED Hartree-Fock (SC-QED-HF) theory…
We present a new method that accurately approximates the shell-model ground-state by products of suitable states. The optimal factors are determined by a variational principle and result from the solution of rather low-dimensional…
Self-consistent-field (SCF) approximations formulated using Hartree-Fock (HF) or Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) both have the potential to yield multiple solutions. However, the formal relationship between multiple solutions…
We explore certain properties of the Hartree-Fock approximation to the ground state of the two-dimensional Hubbard model, emphasizing the fact that in the Hartree approach there is an enormous multiplicity of self-consistent solutions which…