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Entanglement is not only the resource that fuels many quantum technologies but also plays a key role for some of the most profound open questions of fundamental physics. Experiments controlling quantum systems at the single quantum level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Bjarne Bergh , Martin Gärttner

Electron correlations in molecules can be divided in short range dynamical correlations, long range Van der Waals type interactions and near degeneracy static correlations. In this work we analyze for a one-dimensional model of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 K. J. H. Giesbertz , R. van Leeuwen

Accurate modeling of transition metal-containing compounds is of great interest due to their wide-ranging and significant applications. These systems present several challenges from an electronic structure perspective, including significant…

We propose that spatial density matrices, which are singularly important in the study of quantum entanglement, encode the electronic fluctuations and correlations responsible for covalent bonding. From these density matrices, we develop…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-05 Norm M. Tubman , D. ChangMo Yang

Coulomb interactions that occur in electronic structure calculations are correlated by allowing basis function components of the interacting densities to polarize, thereby reducing the magnitude of the interaction. Exchange integrals of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 Jerry L. Whitten

New ways to treat electron correlation in electronic structure problems are discussed in the context of many-electron theory. The present work focuses primarily on static correlation. In related work, a method for including dynamical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Jerry L. Whitten

We study theoretically the appearance of quantum correlations in two- and three-electron scattering in single and double dots. The key role played by transport resonances into entanglement formation between the single-particle states is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Fabrizio Buscemi , Paolo Bordone , Andrea Bertoni

The intersection of Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Computing has led to significant advancements in understanding the potential of using quantum devices for the efficient calculation of molecular energies. Simultaneously, this intersection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Davide Materia , Leonardo Ratini , Celestino Angeli , Leonardo Guidoni

Recently, the correlation theory of the chemical bond was developed, which applies concepts of quantum information theory for the characterization of chemical bonds, based on the multiorbital correlations within the molecule. Here for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-08 Jan Brandejs , Libor Veis , Szilárd Szalay , Gergely Barcza , Jiří Pittner , Örs Legeza

Quantum entanglement offers a unique perspective into the underlying structure of strongly-correlated systems such as atomic nuclei. In this paper, we use quantum information tools to analyze the structure of light and medium-mass…

We present a qualitative model for a fundamental process in molecular electronics: the change in conductance upon bond breaking. In our model a diatomic molecule is attached to spin-polarized contacts. Employing a Hubbard Hamiltonian,…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-06-24 Ali Goker , Francois Goyer , Matthias Ernzerhof

Duality in the entanglement of identical particles manifests that entanglement in only one variable can be revealed at a time. We demonstrate this using polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM) variables of indistinguishable photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Nijil Lal , Sarika Mishra , Anju Rani , Anindya Banerji , Chithrabhanu Perumangattu , R. P. Singh

The dipole moment is a crucial molecular property linked to a molecular system's bond polarity and overall electronic structure. To that end, the electronic dipole moment, which results from the electron density of a system, is often used…

We study the relation between quantum entanglement and electron correlation in quantum chemistry calculations. We prove that the Hartree-Fock (HF) wave function does not violate Bell's inequality, thus is not entangled while the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-25 Hefeng Wang , Sabre Kais

We demonstrate that variations in molecular chemisorption energy on different metals, different surface terminations, and different strain conditions can be accounted for by orbital-specific changes in the substrate electronic structure.…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Sara E. Mason , Ilya Grinberg , Andrew M. Rappe

We discuss a strongly entangled two-particle state of motion that emerges naturally from the double-pulse dissociation of a diatomic molecule. This state, which may be called dissociation-time entangled, permits the unambiguous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 Clemens Gneiting , Klaus Hornberger

In quantum mechanics, observing is not a passive act. Consider a system of two quantum particles A and B: if a measurement apparatus M is used to make an observation on B, the overall state of the system AB will typically be altered. When…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 Gerardo Adesso , Vincenzo D'Ambrosio , Eleonora Nagali , Marco Piani , Fabio Sciarrino

The entanglement properties of two-electron atomic systems have been the subject of considerable research activity in recent years. These studies are still somewhat fragmentary, focusing on numerical computations on particular states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. P. Majtey , A. R. Plastino , J. S. Dehesa

We investigate the attosecond response of the electronic cloud of a molecular system to an outer-valence ionization. The time needed for the remaining electrons to respond to a sudden perturbation in the electronic structure of the molecule…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 K. Chordiya , V. Despré , M. U. Kahaly , A. I. Kuleff

We present a review of recent research on quantum entanglement, with special emphasis on entanglement between single atoms, processing of an encoded entanglement and its temporary evolution. Analysis based on the density matrix formalism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zbigniew Ficek