Multireference Theories of Electron Correlation Based on the Driven Similarity Renormalization Group.

The driven similarity renormalization group (DSRG) provides an alternative way to address the intruder state problem in quantum chemistry. In this review, we discuss recent developments of multireference methods based on the DSRG. We provide a pedagogical introduction to the DSRG and its various extensions and discuss its formal properties in great detail. In addition, we report several illustrative applications of the DSRG to molecular systems.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Annual review of physical chemistry (Print)

• Publication date

  2019-06-07

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1146/annurev-physchem-042018-052416PMID 30893000
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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