Natural orbital functional theory and pairing correlation effects in electron momentum density

Abstract

Occupation numbers of natural orbitals capture the physics of strong electron correlations in momentum space. A Natural Orbital Density Functional Theory based on the antisymmetrized geminal product provides these occupation numbers and the corresponding electron momentum density. A practical implementation of this theory approximates the natural orbitals by the Kohn-Sham orbitals and uses a mean-field approach to estimate pairing amplitudes leading to corrections for the independent particle model. The method is applied to weakly doped $\mbox{La$_2$CuO$_4$}$.

9 pages, 3 figures. Review paper contribution for the special issue (V.40, No.3 2014) of Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur on New Trends of Fermiology (shorter version)

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