ISSN:
0020-7608
Keywords:
Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling
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Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The ensemble N-representability problem for the k-th order reduced density matrix (k-RDM) as well as the problem of reconstruction of the N-particle system density matrices (N-DM) from a given k-RDM are studied. The spatial parts of the k-RDM expansion in terms of spin tensorial operators Θλk are represented using particular values (at specially chosen ) of the Radon transform of the N-DM spatial parts (or their sums) DNλ(x′ | x″) (here, is a d-plane in the n-space ∝n of x = (x′, x″)), with n = 6N, d = 3 (N - k), x′ ≡ (r′1,⃛, r′N), x′ ≡ (r1″,⃛, r″N ()). In this way, the problem is reduced to investigation of the properties of the functions . For a normalizable N - DM, it is proved that are bounded functions. The properties of implied by the N-DM permutational symmetry, Hermiticity, and positive definiteness are found. A formal procedure of reconstruction of all N-DM corresponding to a given k-RDM is proposed. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qua.560560511
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