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We present an analytic proof demonstrating the equivalence between the Random Phase Approximation (RPA) to the ground state correlation energy and a ring-diagram simplification of the Coupled Cluster Doubles (CCD) equations. In the CCD…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gustavo E. Scuseria , Thomas M. Henderson , Danny C. Sorensen

The random-phase approximation to the ground state correlation energy (RPA) in combination with exact exchange (EX) has brought Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory one step closer towards a universal, "general purpose first principles…

The adiabatic connection fluctuation-dissipation theorem with the random phase approximation (RPA) has recently been applied with success to obtain correlation energies of a variety of chemical and solid state systems. The main merit of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-20 Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

In wavefunction-based $\textit{ab-initio}$ quantum mechanical calculations, achieving absolute convergence with respect to the one-electron basis set is a long-standing challenge. In this work, using the random phase approximation (RPA)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-17 Hao Peng , Xinguo Ren

Double excitations are crucial to understanding numerous chemical, physical, and biological processes, but accurately predicting them remains a challenge. In this work, we explore the particle-particle random phase approximation (ppRPA) as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Jincheng Yu , Jiachen Li , Tianyu Zhu , Weitao Yang

We present an optimized random phase approximation method (optRPA26) that significantly improves upon conventional RPA. The method employs an empirically constructed hybrid functional to generate DFT orbitals to evaluate the RPA correlation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Neung-Kyung Yu , Johannes Voss , Andrew J. Medford

The ground-state correlation energy calculated in the random-phase approximation (RPA) is known to be identical to that calculated using a subset of terms appearing in coupled-cluster theory with double excitations. In particular, this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Timothy C. Berkelbach

The random phase approximation (RPA) is exact for the exchange energy of a many-electron ground state, but RPA makes the correlation energy too negative by about 0.5 eV/electron. That large short-range error, which tends to cancel out of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Tim Gould , Adrienn Ruzsinszky , John P. Perdew

We explore several random phase approximation (RPA) correlation energy variants within the adiabatic-connection fluctuation-dissipation theorem approach. These variants differ in the way the exchange interactions are treated. One of these…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 János G. Angyán , Ru-Fen Liu , Julien Toulouse , Georg Jansen

We recently demonstrated a connection between the random phase approximation (RPA) and coupled cluster theory [J. Chem. Phys. 129, 231101 (2008)]. Based on this result, we here propose and test a simple scheme for introducing long-range RPA…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin G. Janesko , Thomas M. Henderson , Gustavo E. Scuseria

The random phase approximation (RPA) builds in correlations left out by mean-field theory. In full 0-hbar-omega shell-model spaces we calculate the Hartree-Fock + RPA binding energy, and compare it to exact diagonalization. We find that in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Ionel Stetcu , Calvin W. Johnson

The consistency condition is tested within the particle-particle random-phase approximation (RPA), renormalized RPA (RRPA) and the self-consistent RPA (SCRPA) making use of the Richardson model of pairing. The two-particle separation energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nguyen Dinh Dang

The optimized effective potential (OEP) method presents an unambiguous way to construct the Kohn-Sham potential corresponding to a given diagrammatic approximation for the exchange-correlation functional. The OEP from the random-phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-18 Stefan Riemelmoser , Merzuk Kaltak , Georg Kresse

Practical applications of fragment embedding and closely related local correlation methods critically depend on a judicious choice of a low-level theory to define the local embedding subspace and to capture long-range electrostatic and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Ruiheng Song , Xiliang Gong , Aamy Bakry , Hong-Zhou Ye

The random-phase approximation (RPA) formulated within the adiabatic connection fluctuation-dissipation framework is a powerful approach to compute the ground-state energies and properties of molecules and materials. Its overall…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Muhammad N. Tahir , Honghui Shang , Xinguo Ren

We use a continued fraction approximation to calculate the RPA response function of nuclear matter. The convergence of the approximation is assessed by comparing with the numerically exact response function obtained with a typical effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jérôme Margueron , J. Navarro , Nguyen Van Giai , P. Schuck

The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) and its variations and extensions are, without any doubt, the most widely used tools to describe Giant Resonances within a microscopic theory. In this chapter, we will start by discussing how RPA comes…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-13 Gianluca Colo'

We discuss that in the random phase approximation (RPA) the first derivative of the energy with respect to the Green's function is the self-energy in the GW approximation. This relationship allows us to derive compact equations for the RPA…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Benjamin Ramberger , Tobias Schäfer , Georg Kresse

The focus of the present work is the application of the random phase approximation (RPA), derived for inhomogeneous fluids [Frydel and Ma, Phys. Rev. E 93, 062112 (2016)], to penetrable-spheres. As penetrable-spheres transform into…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-17 Yan Xiang , Derek Frydel

The direct random-phase approximation (dRPA) is used to calculate and compare atomization energies for the HEAT set and 10 selected molecules of the G2-1 set using both plane waves and Gaussian-type orbitals. We describe detailed procedures…