ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
We implement here the recursion method and its extensions to the case of nonorthogonal bases (Riedinger et al., 1989) for determining the electronic structure of molecules of intermediate size. The recursion method, which is a variant of the Lanczos method, has been introduced by Heine, Haydock, and Kelly in solid state physics during the 1970s. It provides an invaluable tool for studying the electronic structure of solids and amorphs in direct space, without explicit diagonalization, in the case of orthogonal bases. Applications with nonorthogonal bases are made on the decavanadate ion (V10O28)6−, described within the extended Hückel model. Our extension of the recursion method may even be applied to molecules of large size or to infinite systems, where the usual methods of quantum chemistry fail. It applies to crystals as well as to glasses and molecules, for which no translational symmetry exists.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.460030
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