Issue 16, 2022

Geometrical picture of the electron–electron correlation at the large-D limit

Abstract

In electronic structure calculations, the correlation energy is defined as the difference between the mean field and the exact solution of the non relativistic Schrödinger equation. Such an error in the different calculations is not directly observable as there is no simple quantum mechanical operator, apart from correlation functions, that correspond to such quantity. Here, we use the dimensional scaling approach, in which the electrons are localized at the large-dimensional scaled space, to describe a geometric picture of the electronic correlation. Both, the mean field, and the exact solutions at the large-D limit have distinct geometries. Thus, the difference might be used to describe the correlation effect. Moreover, correlations can be also described and quantified by the entanglement between the electrons, which is a strong correlation without a classical analog. Entanglement is directly observable and it is one of the most striking properties of quantum mechanics and bounded by the area law for local gapped Hamiltonians of interacting many-body systems. This study opens up the possibility of presenting a geometrical picture of the electron–electron correlations and might give a bound on the correlation energy. The results at the large-D limit and at D = 3 indicate the feasibility of using the geometrical picture to get a bound on the electron–electron correlations.

Graphical abstract: Geometrical picture of the electron–electron correlation at the large-D limit

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
26 jan 2022
Accepted
29 mar 2022
First published
30 mar 2022

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2022,24, 9298-9307

Author version available

Geometrical picture of the electron–electron correlation at the large-D limit

K. J. B. Ghosh, S. Kais and D. R. Herschbach, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2022, 24, 9298 DOI: 10.1039/D2CP00438K

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