THE METHOD OF INCREMENTS — A WAVEFUNCTION-BASED AB-INITIO CORRELATION METHOD FOR SOLIDS
2007 ◽
Vol 21
(13n14)
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pp. 2204-2214
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Keyword(s):
The Many
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The method of increments is a wavefunction-based ab initio correlation method for solids, which explicitly calculates the many-body wavefunction of the system. After a Hartree-Fock treatment of the infinite system the correlation energy of the solid is expanded in terms of localised orbitals or of a group of localised orbitals. The method of increments has been applied to a great variety of materials with a band gap, but in this paper the extension to metals is described. The application to solid mercury is presented, where we achieve very good agreement of the calculated ground-state properties with the experimental data.