Coupled-Cluster Imaginary-Time Evolution and the Coupled-Cluster Energy Variance

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Main Authors: Ai, Yuhang, Zhai, Huanchen, Chan, Garnet Kin-Lic
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author Ai, Yuhang
Zhai, Huanchen
Chan, Garnet Kin-Lic
author_facet Ai, Yuhang
Zhai, Huanchen
Chan, Garnet Kin-Lic
contents We discuss a coupled-cluster formalism for carrying out imaginary-time evolution from an arbitrary reference, and study the properties of the resulting evolution trajectories. The evolution converges to a solution of the standard coupled-cluster amplitude equations in the long-time limit if a finite valued limit exists, but when such a limit does not exist, the trajectories still contain additional information beyond the standard solutions. We introduce the coupled-cluster energy variance which through its minima identifies physically regularized coupled-cluster amplitudes when the solutions of the amplitude equations are unreasonable. We demonstrate the value of this formalism in several exploratory examples within single- and multi-reference coupled-cluster formulations.
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spellingShingle Coupled-Cluster Imaginary-Time Evolution and the Coupled-Cluster Energy Variance
Ai, Yuhang
Zhai, Huanchen
Chan, Garnet Kin-Lic
Chemical Physics
We discuss a coupled-cluster formalism for carrying out imaginary-time evolution from an arbitrary reference, and study the properties of the resulting evolution trajectories. The evolution converges to a solution of the standard coupled-cluster amplitude equations in the long-time limit if a finite valued limit exists, but when such a limit does not exist, the trajectories still contain additional information beyond the standard solutions. We introduce the coupled-cluster energy variance which through its minima identifies physically regularized coupled-cluster amplitudes when the solutions of the amplitude equations are unreasonable. We demonstrate the value of this formalism in several exploratory examples within single- and multi-reference coupled-cluster formulations.
title Coupled-Cluster Imaginary-Time Evolution and the Coupled-Cluster Energy Variance
topic Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06429