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:
A method for calculating ab initio electronic excitation energies of molecular crystals, based on a many-electron tight-binding approximation, is described. The method follows Frenkel's model for excitons and allows a many-electron treatment of the band-structure problem of molecular crystals. The case of hole bands is studied in detail and various versions of the method are considered. A computational scheme is proposed, in which approximate correlation corrections to the HFR matrix equations of the one-electron LCMO method are calculated. The main effects contributing to these corrections are the effect of relaxation of a molecular ion, the effect of intramolecular electronic-correlation change, and the effect of polarization of the remaining molecules in a crystal. The method developed in the present paper is applied to calculation of the hole bands of the HCP helium crystal.
Additional Material:
1 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qua.560210603
