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Post-hartree-fock





For the great majority of systems under study, in particular for excited states and processes such as molecular dissociation reactions, the fourth item is by far the most important. As a result, the term ''post-Hartree-Fock method'' is typically used for methods of approximating the electron correlation of a system.

Usually, post-Hartree-Fock methods give more accurate results than Hartree-Fock calculations, although the added accuracy comes with the price of added computational cost, of course.


POST-HARTREE-FOCK METHODS



RELATED METHODS

Methods that use more than one determinant are not strictly post-Hartree-Fock methods, as they use a single determinant as reference, but they often use similar perturbation, or configuration interaction methods to improve the description of electron correlation. These methods include: