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The Local Approach for the calculation of electronic correlation energies in molecules is generalized to excited states. Within the Local Approach correlated states are obtained by applying a local projection operator on the Hartree-Fock ground state or simple reference states, which are used as zeroth order approximations for the excited states, respectively. In the case of excited states one has in addition to require the correlated states to be orthogonal on the states lower in energy. This is done by using Schmidt's orthogonalization. The method is applied to a simple model of the H6-ring for which an exact solution is available. The results obtained are of comparable quality as for the ground state.
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Horsch, P. Extension of the Local Approach to excited states of molecules. Z Physik B 33, 43–49 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01325812
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01325812