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Physical Meaning of Natural Orbitals and Natural Occupation Numbers

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Physical Meaning of Natural Orbitals and Natural Occupation Numbers
By their definition, the natural orbitals and occupation numbers are the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the one-body reduced density matrix. This raises the question to which extend one can assign a physical interpretation to them, e.g. if the degeneracies in the occupation numbers reflect the symmetries of the system or if an excitation can be described by simply changing the occupations of the ground-state natural orbitals. We use exactly solvable model systems to investigate the suitability of natural orbitals as a basis for describing many-body excitations. We analyze to which extend the natural orbitals describe both bound as well as ionized excited states and show that depending on the specifics of the excited state the ground-state natural orbitals yield a good approximation or not.

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Nicole Helbig
Keywords
orbitals
matrices
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Date Added: 11/10/2016
Duration: 00:39:21

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