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Main Authors: Calero-Osorio, Daniel F., Ayers, Paul W.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07580
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  • We show how to add the effects of residual electron correlation to a reference seniority-zero wavefunction by making a unitary transformation of the true electronic Hamiltonian into seniority-zero form. The transformation is treated via the Baker Campbell Hausdorff (BCH) expansion and the seniority-zero structure of the reference is exploited to evaluate the first three commutators exactly; the remaining contributions are handled with a recursive commutator approximation, as is typical in canonical transformation methods. By choosing a seniority-zero reference and using parallel computation, this method is practical for small- to medium-sized systems. Numerical tests show high accuracy, with errors $\sim 10^{-4}$ Hartree.