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Reduced density matrices and semidefinite optimization

Bastiaan Braams
Deptartment of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Tuesday, June 17, 2003 15:00-16:00,
Admin. Bldg. Lecture Room F
Gaithersburg
Tuesday, June 17, 2003 13:00-14:00,
Room 4550
Boulder

Abstract: Reduced density matrices play an important role in the search for methods of electronic structure calculation that offer a systematic route to better accuracy and also offer favorable computational scaling properties for large systems. In particular, the 2-body reduced density matrix (2-RDM) contains in it enough information to express exactly (through a known linear functional) the complete electron Hamiltonian as well as all other ground-state properties of interest. However, the constructive use of the 2-RDM is hindered by the problem of N-representability that was first clearly described and studied by Coleman and by Garrod and Percus. We describe recent work that uses semidefinite programming to solve the variational problem for the 2-RDM subject to a subset of representability conditions, and we discuss the quality of the resulting approximation.
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