Static Effective Hamiltonians for Molecular Systems through RPA-Based Downfolding.
- 1Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HVAmsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract
Green's function-based downfolding methods construct effective Hamiltonians of reduced dimension that capture dynamical correlations of an electronic environment through effective potentials acting on the active space only. Using methods based on the constrained random phase approximation (cRPA) and moment RPA (mRPA), we construct static effective Hamiltonians that include screening through the environment. We derive expressions for the energy contribution from the environment and for the effective one- and two-body terms, taking into account double-counting corrections. cRPA requires additional consideration due to its frequency dependence, while mRPA provides a static Hamiltonian by construction. For the ground state energy of benzene and bond dissociation curves, we discuss the differences and similarities between the different flavors of RPA-based screening. We show that downfolding using cRPA describes both dynamical and strong correlation well, while mRPA and cRPA restricted to screening the particle-hole matrix elements can fail to describe bond dissociation due to a dominating dynamical correlation term. In the static limit, these two methods are shown to be almost indistinguishable.
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BibTeX
@article{verzijl2026static,
title = {{Static Effective Hamiltonians for Molecular Systems through RPA-Based Downfolding.}},
author = {Erik Verzijl and Arno Förster},
journal = {Journal of chemical theory and computation},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.1021/acs.jctc.6c01128},
url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42917472},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Static Effective Hamiltonians for Molecular Systems through RPA-Based Downfolding.
AU - Erik Verzijl
AU - Arno Förster
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/01
JO - Journal of chemical theory and computation
DO - 10.1021/acs.jctc.6c01128
UR - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42917472
AB - Green's function-based downfolding methods construct effective Hamiltonians of reduced dimension that capture dynamical correlations of an electronic environment through effective potentials acting on the active space only. Using methods based on the constrained random phase approximation (cRPA) and moment RPA (mRPA), we construct static effective Hamiltonians that include screening through the environment. We derive expressions for the energy contribution from the environment and for the effective one- and two-body terms, taking into account double-counting corrections. cRPA requires additional consideration due to its frequency dependence, while mRPA provides a static Hamiltonian by construction. For the ground state energy of benzene and bond dissociation curves, we discuss the differences and similarities between the different flavors of RPA-based screening. We show that downfolding using cRPA describes both dynamical and strong correlation well, while mRPA and cRPA restricted to screening the particle-hole matrix elements can fail to describe bond dissociation due to a dominating dynamical correlation term. In the static limit, these two methods are shown to be almost indistinguishable.
SN - 1549-9618
SN - 1549-9626
ER -