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Highly accurate closed-form approximations are given for the ground state and first excited state wavefunctions and energies for a nonrelativistic particle in a one-dimensional double square well potential with a square barrier in between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Don N. Page

The equilibrium state of a system consisting of a large number of strongly interacting electrons can be characterized by its density operator. This gives a direct access to the ground-state energy or, at finite temperatures, to the free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-23 Michael Potthoff

This work presents a series of highly-accurate excited-state properties obtained using high-order coupled-cluster (CC) calculations performed with a series of diffuse containing basis sets, as well as extensive comparisons with experimental…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Amara Chrayteh , Aymeric Blondel , Pierre-François Loos , Denis Jacquemin

In this work, we extend the Piris natural orbital functionals (PNOFs) to excited states by coupling their reconstructed second-order reduced density matrices with the extended random-phase approximation (ERPA). We have named the general…

In this work, we revisited the idea of using the coupled-cluster ground state formalism to target excited states. Our main focus was targeting doubly excited states and double core hole states. Typical equation-of-motion (EOM) approaches…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Joonho Lee , David W. Small , Martin Head-Gordon

This paper develops an enhanced finite element method for approximating a class of variational problems which exhibit the \textit{Lavrentiev gap phenomenon} in the sense that the minimum values of the energy functional have a nontrivial gap…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Xiaobing Feng , Stefan Schnake

We present a new form of explicitly correlated wave function whose parameters are mainly linear, to circumvent the problem of the optimization of a large number of non-linear parameters usually encountered with basis sets of explicitly…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Luca Bertini , Dario Bressanini , Massimo Mella , Gabriele Morosi

In this work we set up a model Hamiltonian to study the excited state quantum dynamics of 1,1-difluoroethylene, a molecule that has equivalent atoms exchanged by a torsional symmetry operation leading to equivalent minima on the potential…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Sandra Gómez , Nadja Singer , Leticia González , Graham Worth

Besides perturbation theory (which clearly requires the knowledge of the exact unperturbed solution), variational techniques represent the main tool for any investigation of the eigenvalue problem of some semibounded operator H in quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Wolfgang Lucha , Franz F. Schoberl

Accounting for Coriolis mixing of experimentally known rotational bands with $K^{\pi}< 3^+$, non-adiabatic effects in energy and electric characteristics of excited states are investigated, within phenomenological model. The energy and wave…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-29 P. N. Usmanov , A. A. Okhunov , H. Abu Kassim , U. S. Salikhbaev

We develop a variational formalism in order to study the structure of low energy spectra of frustrated quantum spin systems. It is first applied to trial wavefunctions of ladders with one spin-1/2 on each site. We determine energy minima of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean Richert

We introduce several improvements to the penalty-based variational quantum Monte Carlo (VMC) algorithm for computing electronic excited states of Entwistle $\textit{et al.}$ [M. T. Entwistle $\textit{et al.}$, Nat. Commun. $\textbf{14}$,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 P. Bernát Szabó , Zeno Schätzle , Mike T. Entwistle , Frank Noé

Based on the work of Gorling and that of Levy and Nagy, density-functional formalism for many Fermionic excited-states is explored through a careful and rigorous analysis of the excited-state density to external potential mapping. It is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Prasanjit Samal , Manoj K. Harbola

We apply a variational method devised for the nuclear many--body problem to the 1-dimensional Hubbard--model with nearest neighbor hopping and periodic boundary conditions. The test wave function consist for each state out of a single…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 K. W. Schmid , T. Dahm , J. Margueron , H. Müther

Problems in quantum chemical simulations, especially achieving accurate excited-state potential energy surfaces, are among the primary applications to achieve quantum utility. On near-term quantum hardware, variants of the variational…

Excited electronic states of molecules and solids play a fundamental role in fields such as catalysis and electronics. In electronic structure calculations, excited states typically correspond to saddle points on the surface described by…

In single-reference coupled-cluster (CC) methods, one has to solve a set of non-linear polynomial equations in order to determine the so-called amplitudes which are then used to compute the energy and other properties. Although it is of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Antoine Marie , Fábris Kossoski , Pierre-François Loos

We study the excitation spectroscopy of few-electron, parallel coupled double quantum dots (QDs). By applying a finite source drain voltage to a double QD (DQD), the first excited states observed in nonequilibrium charging diagrams can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 T. Hatano , Y. Tokura , S. Amaha , T. Kubo , S. Teraoka , S. Tarucha

Certain point defects in solids can efficiently be used as qubits for applications in quantum technology. They have spin states that are initializable, readable, robust, and can be manipulated optically. New theoretical methods are needed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Kristoffer Simula , Ilja Makkonen

We consider spaces of trial wavefunctions for ground states and edge excitations in the fractional quantum Hall effect that can be obtained in various ways. In one way, functions are obtained by analyzing the entanglement of the ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-04 T. S. Jackson , N. Read , S. H. Simon