A equação de Schrödinger possui solução exata para átomos monoeletrônicos, porém devido ao nível de complexidade das soluções para átomos polieletrônicos e moléculas houve a necessidade de métodos aproximados que descrevessem satisfatoriamente as propriedades de interesse. O Método da Coordenada Geradora Hartree-Fock (MCG-HF) é um método variacional que permitiu desenvolver conjuntos de base acurados para átomos, entretanto, utilizando apenas a discretização integral, os conjuntos de base requeriam um maior número de expoentes, deixando-os extensos. Barbosa e da Silva (2009) introduziram o conceito de discretização integral polinomial que diminuiu a quantidade de expoentes necessários para descrever adequadamente um átomo, gerando conjuntos de base menores. Os conjuntos de primitivas gerados pelo p-MCG-HF foram contraídos utilizando o método de contração geral para a qualidade 5Z e em seguida, polarizados, utilizando dois métodos de polarização, ou seja, a pinçada e otimizada, para descrever melhor propriedades químicas como ligação química, estados excitados, entre outros. As energias obtidas por esses métodos de polarização são semelhantes, porém o tempo computacional é menor para a polarização pinçada (na maioria dos casos). Ao comparar os resultados obtidos neste trabalho com aqueles da literatura, os resultados obtidos utilizando o p-MCG-HF são de alta qualidade e com a enorme vantagem de ter tempo computacionais muito reduzidos. Esse método já está sendo aplicado por este grupo de pesquisa para gerar conjunto base para átomos do 1º ao 2º períodos da tabela periódica e os metais de transição e têm demonstrado resultados satisfatórios. Então, no intuito de estudar todos os átomos da tabela periódica até o bário, os átomos Gálio, Germânio, Arsênio, Selênio, Bromo, Criptônio, Rubídio, Estrôncio, Índio, Estanho, Antimônio, Telúrio, Iodo, Xenônio, Césio e Bário serão o foco deste trabalho. / The Schrödinger equation has exact solution for monoelectronic atoms, but the high complexity for the exact solution for many electron systems, lead to the use of approximation methods that satisfactorily. The Hartree-Fock Generating Coordinate Method (MCG-HF) is a variational method that allows the development of accurate basis sets for atoms with many electrons. However, using only an integral discretization, the basis sets generated with the MCG-HF requires a larger number of exponentes. Barbosa and da Silva (2009) introduced the concept of integral polynomial discretization that reduced the amount of exponents required to properly describe an atom, generating smaller basis sets. The sets of primitives generated with p-MCG-HF were contracted using the general contraction method for 5Z quality and then polarized using two different polarization methods (pinched and optimized) to better describe chemical properties such as chemical bonding, excited states, etc. The energies obtained with these polarization methods are similar, but the computational cost is smaller for pinched polarization (in most cases). Comparing the results obtained in this work with those of the literature, the results obtained by using the p-MCG-HF have a high quality and a large advantage of having very reduced computational cost. This method is already being applied in ours research group to generate basis set for atoms of the 1st to 2nd period of the periodic table and the transition metals showing satisfactory results. In order to study all the atoms in the periodic table, the atoms Gallium, Germanium, Arsenic, Selenium, Bromine, Crypton, Rubidium, Strontium, Indium, Tin, Antimony, Tellurium, Iodine, Xenium, Cesium and Barium will be focused in this work.

Neste trabalho nós estudamos as propriedades de nanopartículas de Si hidrogenadas, limpas e com oxidação da superfície, como simulação do material Silício poroso. Para tal, desenvolvemos um procedimento para o cálculo da geometria, propriedades vibracionais e espectro ótico de sistemas semicondutores complexos, usando as técnicas semiempíricas de Química Quântica. As técnicas escolhidas foram completamente reparametrizadas para os átomos de Si e O, e assim apresentamos as novas parametrizações que chamamos AM1/Cristal e Zindo/Cristal. Contrariamente ao silício cristalino, o material poroso emite eficientemente luz no visível, com duas bandas, no vermelho-laranja e no verde. Esse comportamento tem sido atribuído ao confinamento quântico em estruturas nanocristalinas criadas pela porosidade, confinamente esse que deve ser responsável tanto pela eficiência da emissão, quanto pelo deslocamento do limiar ótico para energias mais altas. Nossos resultados para nanopartículas de diferentes diâmetros confirmam a cristalinidade das estruturas, e mostram um deslocamento para o azul do primeiro pico de absorção para partículas de diâmetro ~15 Å está em torno de 3 eV, muito mais altas do que a emissão vermelho-laranja. O estudo da relaxação estrutural no primeiro estado excitado mostra uma distorção forte e localizada, criando um defeito de superfície em que um átomo de hidrogênio coloca-se numa configuração de ponte Si-H-Si. Nessa configuração as partículas emitem numa região de energia mais baixa (vermelho-laranja), independentemente do diâmetro. A oxidação da superfície influencia muito pouco as propriedades óticas, e em particular não afeta a energia da linha de emissão. À luz destes resultados, associamos a atividade ótica do silício poroso a regiões nanocristalinas quase esféricas. A absorção (que varia consideravelmente em energia) e emissão no verde ocorreu no core cristalino, e a emissão vermelho-laranja na região de superfície, através desses defeitos fotocriados, sendo portanto fixa em energia. O deslocamento para o azul da absorção com a oxidação interpretamos como sendo devido à diminuição do diâmetro efetivo dos cristalinos presentes no material, e o decréscimo da intensidade de luminescência como devida a um enrijecimento da superfície oxidada, que reduz o número de sítios favoráveis à fotocriação de defeitos. / We study the properties of hydrogenated Si nanoparticles, also under surface oxidation, as a model-material to understand porous Silicon. To do that we developed a procedure designed to calculate geometries, vibrational properties and optical spectra for complex semiconductor systems, using semiempirical Quantum Chemistry techniques. The adopted techniques were thoroughly reparametrized for the Si and O atoms, and we thus present here the new parametrizations that we call AM1/Crystal and ZINDO/Crystal. Contrary to the bulk crystal, porous Si is known to emit visible light, efficiently, with bands in the red-orange and green regions. This behavior has been ascribed to quantum confinement in crystalline nanostructures created by the porosity, which should account both for the blue shift of the optical thereshold and for the emission efficiency. Our results for different nanoparticles confirm the crystallinity of the structures, and show a blue shift of the first absorption peak with decreasing diameter. However the absorption peak energy for nanoparticles with effective diameter around 15 Å lies around 3eV, much higher than the red-orange emission. A study of structural relaxation in the first excited state reveals a strong local distortion that creates a surface defect, in which an hydrogen atom \"bridges a pair of surface silicon atoms. In this Si-H-Si configuration the nanoparticles emit light of much lower energy (red-orange), which is virtually independent of diameter. Surface oxidation also has very little influence on the energy of the emitted light.Based on our results, we associate the optical activity of porous silicon to quasi- spherical nanocrystalline regions in the material. Both the absorption and green emission occur in the core of the crystallites, and shows blue-shift, with decreasing size; the red-orange luminescence occurs at the surface, through photo- generated defects, being thus pinned in energy. The blue shift of absorption with oxidation we interpret as being due to decrease in crystallite size, and the decrease in luminescence intensity as being due to \"hardening\" of the oxidized surface, which decreases the total number of sites for photogeneration of defects.

A equação de Schrödinger possui solução exata para átomos monoeletrônicos, porém devido ao nível de complexidade das soluções para átomos polieletrônicos e moléculas houve a necessidade de métodos aproximados que descrevessem satisfatoriamente as propriedades de interesse. O Método da Coordenada Geradora Hartree-Fock (MCG-HF) é um método variacional que permitiu desenvolver conjuntos de base acurados para átomos, entretanto, utilizando apenas a discretização integral, os conjuntos de base requeriam um maior número de expoentes, deixando-os extensos. Barbosa e da Silva (2009) introduziram o conceito de discretização integral polinomial que diminuiu a quantidade de expoentes necessários para descrever adequadamente um átomo, gerando conjuntos de base menores. Os conjuntos de primitivas gerados pelo p-MCG-HF foram contraídos utilizando o método de contração geral para a qualidade 5Z e em seguida, polarizados, utilizando dois métodos de polarização, ou seja, a pinçada e otimizada, para descrever melhor propriedades químicas como ligação química, estados excitados, entre outros. As energias obtidas por esses métodos de polarização são semelhantes, porém o tempo computacional é menor para a polarização pinçada (na maioria dos casos). Ao comparar os resultados obtidos neste trabalho com aqueles da literatura, os resultados obtidos utilizando o p-MCG-HF são de alta qualidade e com a enorme vantagem de ter tempo computacionais muito reduzidos. Esse método já está sendo aplicado por este grupo de pesquisa para gerar conjunto base para átomos do 1º ao 2º períodos da tabela periódica e os metais de transição e têm demonstrado resultados satisfatórios. Então, no intuito de estudar todos os átomos da tabela periódica até o bário, os átomos Gálio, Germânio, Arsênio, Selênio, Bromo, Criptônio, Rubídio, Estrôncio, Índio, Estanho, Antimônio, Telúrio, Iodo, Xenônio, Césio e Bário serão o foco deste trabalho. / The Schrödinger equation has exact solution for monoelectronic atoms, but the high complexity for the exact solution for many electron systems, lead to the use of approximation methods that satisfactorily. The Hartree-Fock Generating Coordinate Method (MCG-HF) is a variational method that allows the development of accurate basis sets for atoms with many electrons. However, using only an integral discretization, the basis sets generated with the MCG-HF requires a larger number of exponentes. Barbosa and da Silva (2009) introduced the concept of integral polynomial discretization that reduced the amount of exponents required to properly describe an atom, generating smaller basis sets. The sets of primitives generated with p-MCG-HF were contracted using the general contraction method for 5Z quality and then polarized using two different polarization methods (pinched and optimized) to better describe chemical properties such as chemical bonding, excited states, etc. The energies obtained with these polarization methods are similar, but the computational cost is smaller for pinched polarization (in most cases). Comparing the results obtained in this work with those of the literature, the results obtained by using the p-MCG-HF have a high quality and a large advantage of having very reduced computational cost. This method is already being applied in ours research group to generate basis set for atoms of the 1st to 2nd period of the periodic table and the transition metals showing satisfactory results. In order to study all the atoms in the periodic table, the atoms Gallium, Germanium, Arsenic, Selenium, Bromine, Crypton, Rubidium, Strontium, Indium, Tin, Antimony, Tellurium, Iodine, Xenium, Cesium and Barium will be focused in this work.

Inhalt dieser Arbeit ist die Untersuchung der Physik des ungeordneten wechselwirkenden Elektronenproblems auf der isolierenden Seite des Metall-Isolator-Uebergangs. Als Modellsystem dient dabei ein verallgemeinertes Coulomb-Glas-Modell mit Transfermatrixelementen zwischen verschiedenen Plaetzen, das Quanten-Coulomb-Glas. Ziel ist, herauszufinden, wie sich die Elektron-Elektron-Wechselwirkung auf die Lokalisierungs- und Transporteigenschaften des Modells auswirkt. Im ersten Teil wird das Quanten-Coulomb-Glas in Hartree-Fock-Naeherung behandelt. Da diese Naeherung eine effektive Einteilchentheorie ist, koennen die Lokalisierungs- und Transporteigenschaften mit denselben Methoden wie beim Anderson-Modell der Lokalisierung untersucht werden. Es erweist sich, dasz die Wechselwirkung im Rahmen einer Einteilchen-Naeherung immer zu einer staerkeren Lokalisierung der Zustaende an der Fermienergie und damit zu einer Verschlechterung des Transports im Vergleich zum nichtwechselwirkenden System fuehrt. Dieses Ergebnis laeszt sich auch gut physikalisch verstehen. Im zweiten Teil steht die Frage nach der Gueltigkeit der Hartree-Fock-Naeherung fuer das Quanten-Coulomb-Glas im Mittelpunkt. Dazu werden die Hartree-Fock-Resultate mit Ergebnissen aus der exakten Diagonalisierung sehr kleiner Gitter verglichen. Es werden Lokalisierungskriterien entwickelt, die einen direkten Vergleich mit den Einteilchenlokalisierungsmaszen gestatten. Zur Beurteilung der Transporteigenschaften dient der Gleichstromleitwert nach dem Kubo-Greenwood-Formalismus. Es zeigt sich, dasz die Hartree-Fock-Naeherung den Transport unterschaetzt und dasz die Wechselwirkung im Vergleich zum nichtwechselwirkenden System bei schwacher Unordnung eine Verringerung des Transports und bei groszer Unordnung eine Erhoehung des Transports bewirkt. In dritten Teil werden Idee und Realisierung einer neuen Naeherung, der Hartree-Fock-basierten Diagonalisierung, diskutiert. Ueberlegungen und Untersuchungen zur Konvergenz von Grundzustandsenergie, Energie der angeregten Zustaende, Einteilchenzustandsdichte, Rueckkehrwahrscheinlichkeit und Leitwert werden vorgenommen. Ergebnisse fuer zweidimensionale Systeme mit 12, 16 und 25 Gitterplaetzen bei Halbfuellung werden vorgestellt. Auszerdem erfolgen Untersuchungen mit verschiedenen Wechselwirkungsstarken fuer ein-, zwei und dreidimensionale Systeme mit 25*1, 5*5 und 3*3*3 Gitterplaetzen. Die Resultate aus dem zweiten Teil bestaetigen sich: Fuer genuegend starke Unordnung induziert Wechselwirkung immer eine staerkere Delokalisierung, fuer genuegend kleine Unordnung immer eine staerkere Lokalisierung. / This work investigates the physics of the disordered interacting electron problem on the isolating side of the metal-insulator-transition. A generalized Coulomb-Glass with transfermatrixelements between next neighbours - the Quantum-Coulomb-Glass - serves as model system. The goal is to find out how electron-electron interaction influences the localization and transport properties of the model. In the first part the Quantum-Coulomb-Glass is treated at Hartree-Fock level. Because this approximation is an effective one-particle theory localization and transport properties can be investigated with the same methods as in the Anderson-Model of localization. It ist found that interaction in the framework of an one-particle approximation always leads to an enhanced localization of the states near the Fermi-energy in comparison to the nonintercting system. This also can be well understood within different physically argumentations. The second part centers around the question how valid Hartree-Fock approximation is. Thus Hartree-Fock results are compared with results for exact diagonalization of small lattices. Criteria of localization are developed which allow a direct comparison to measures of single-particle localization. The transport-properties are measured by the zero frequency Kubo-conductance. It shows that Hartree-Fock approximation underestimates the transport and that interaction leads to a decrease of transport in the region of small disorder and to an increase for strong disorder. The third part discusses idea and realisation of a new approximation - the Hartree-Fock-based diagonalization. Aguments and investigations about convergence of ground-state-energy, excited-state-energy, single-particle density of states, return probability and conductance are shown. Results for systems in two dimensions with 12, 16 and 25 sites and half filling are presented. Additionally different interaction strenghts for one-, two- and three-dimensional systems with 25*1, 5*5 and 3*3*3 sites are investigated. The results from part two are hardened: Interaction always leads to enhanced delocalization if disorder is strong enough and always leads to enhanced localization if disorder is small enough.

Les travaux de recherche présentés dans cette thèse portent sur la méthode de décomposition de l'interaction d'échange ($J$) entre les centres magnétiques d'une molécule portant des électrons célibataires par l'approche à brisure de symétrie. Le but de cette méthode est d'extraire à l'aide des calculs non-restreints les différentes contributions physiques au couplage magnétique : l'échange direct ($J_0$) entre les orbitales magnétiques, l'échange cinétique ($\Delta J_{KE}$) permettant la délocalisation des orbitales magnétiques et la polarisation des orbitales de cœur ($\Delta J_{CP}$). La première partie de ce travail est consacrée à la théorie de la méthode de décomposition dans le cas le plus simple de deux électrons dans deux centres magnétiques d'un système centro-symétrique. La physique des contributions est expliquée en lien avec la présentation des outils méthodologiques et théoriques utilisés dans cette approche. La deuxième partie de cette thèse concerne l'implémentation de cette méthode dans le logiciel Orca et son application à des systèmes non-centrosymétriques. La dernière partie de ces travaux porte sur les développements méthodologiques que j'ai pu mener au cours de ces trois années de thèse. Une nouvelle approche permettant d'extraire la contribution de polarisation en spin est présentée. De plus, une proposition de généralisation de la décomposition de l'interaction d'échange magnétique basée sur la théorie des hamiltoniens effectifs est discutée. Un effort particulier a été porté sur l'explication et la signification physique de l'approche à brisure de symétrie dans le formalisme Hartree-Fock et la théorie de la fonctionnelle de la densité / This work is focused on the decomposition of the magnetic exchange coupling ($J$) between magnetic centers in the broken-symmetry approach. The purpose of this method is to extract from unrestricted calculations the different contributions to the magnetic coupling: the direct exchange ($J_0$) between the magnetic orbitals, the kinetic exchange interaction ($\Delta J_{KE}$) allowing the delocalization of the magnetic orbitals and the core polarization ($\Delta J_{CP}$) of non-magnetic electrons. The first part of this thesis is centered on the theory of the decomposition method in the simplest case of a centro-symmetric system with two electrons in two magnetic centers. The physical meaning is explained in relation with methodological and theoretical tools used in this approach. The second part presents the implementation of the method in the Orca package and its application to non centro-symmetric systems. In particular, this application highlights the interest of a such automatic method in standard quantum package. The last part of this work is focused on the methodological developments carried out during these three years. An innovative method avoiding the spin contamination problem is presented to extract the spin polarization effects. Furthermore, a generalization of the decomposition of $J$ to more complicated systems with more than two electrons in two magnetic centers is discussed. Special attention was given to the explanation and physical meaning of broken symmetry approach in Hartree-Fock and Density Functional Theory

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Theoretical study of energy levels, oscillator strengths, transition probabilities, and lifetimes of Si III lines has been reported in this thesis. These atomic parameters are required for the interpretation of emission and absorption lines of Si III and for the modeling of astrophysical plasmas including Galactic High Velocity Clouds (HVCs), the Sun, and white dwarf stars. We used Hartree-Fock (HF) and Multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock (MCHF) methods in our calculations. We have considered 58 levels of the 3s2, 3s3p, 3p2, 3s3d, 3s4s, 3s4p, 3s4d, 3s4f, 3s5s, 3s5p, 3s5d, 3s6s, and 3s5f configurations. The relativistic corrections are included in Breit-Pauli approximation by using one-body Darwin, mass correction, spin-orbit operators, and two-body spin-other-orbit and spin-spin operators. The results have been compared with previous theoretical results and available experimental data, and generally a good agreement is found.

Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit werden theoretische Modelle zur Beschreibung von Valenz- und Rumpf-angeregten elektronischen Zuständen diskutiert. Im Fall der Valenz-Anregungen wurden time-dependend Hartree-Fock (TD-HF) und timedependent Dichtefunktionaltheorie (TD-DFT)Methoden mit verschiedenen Funktionalen für ein Perylenbisimid (PBI) System validiert. Eine einfache Analyse der Charaktäre der angeregten Zustände wurde vorgeschlagen, die auf den berechneten Übergangsdipolmomenten basiert. Dieser Ansatz ist allerdings auf Zustände beschränkt, die ein signifikantes Übergangsdipolmoment aufweisen. Deshalb wurde eine allgemeinere und fundiertere Methode entwickelt, die auf einer Analyse der berechneten CISWellenfunktion basiert. Darüberhinaus wurde ein literaturbekannter Model-Hamiltonoperator Ansatz von einem lokalisierten Molekülorbitalbild (MO) abgeleitet, das aus der generelleren Analyse-Methode resultiert. Auf diesem Weg ist ein Zugang zu diabatischen angeregten Zuständen und korrespondierenden Kopplungsparametern auf der Basis von ab initio Rechnungen gegeben. Für rumpfangeregte elektronische Zustände wurden drei Methoden für C 1s-angeregte und ionisierte Zustände verschiedener kleiner Moleküle validiert. Darüberhinaus wurde die Basissatzabhängigkeit dieser Zustände untersucht. Anhand der Resultate wurde die frozen core Näherung ausgewählt um rumpfangeregte Zustände von Naphthalintetracarbonsäuredianhydrid (NTCDA) zu berechnen. Um experimentelle Ergebnisse zu erklären, wurde ein Algorithmus entwicklet, der die Exzitonenkopplungsparameter im Fall von nicht-orthogonalen MOs berechnet. / This work focuses on theoretical approaches for predicting the valence and core excited states of aggregate systems. For the valence excitations, TD-HF and TD-DFT with different functionals have been tested at the Perylene bisimide (PBI) system. A simple character analysis method based on the calculated transition dipole moments is proposed. However, this method does not work for excited states without any transition dipole moment. Thus, we proposed a more general and more valid method based on a calculated CIS type wavefunction for the character analysis. Furthermore, a model Hamiltonian method is derived from a localized picture. The energies of the diabatic states and the corresponding coupling parameters were also determined on the basis of ab initio calculations. For the core excitation, three different methods were validated for C 1s-excited and ionized states if several small molecules. Also we tested the basis sets dependence of these core excited states. Based on those results, we chose the frozen core approximation method to evaluate the core excited states of NTCDA molecules. In order to explain the findings in the experiments, we developed an algorithm to evaluate the exciton coupling parameter where non-orthogonal MOs are used.

Neste trabalho apresentamos dois conjuntos de transformações do campo médio de emparelhamento e o cálculo deste no canal n--p isovetorial. Correlações de curto alcance são descritas numa teoria de campo médio nuclear relativístico na aproximação de Dirac-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (DHFB). Esta aproximação foi desenvolvida inicialmente para descrever o dito emparelhamento padrão em matéria nuclear simétrica. A generalização da aproximação DHFB inclui o emparelhamento no canal quasideuteron em matéria assimétrica. Construímos transformações do campo de emparelhamento usando como geradores destas as matrizes $gamma$ e $ au$ e suas possíveis combinações. Existem dois conjuntos distintos que transformam de forma diferente o campo de emparelhamento. Como resultado destas transformações, obteve-se que ambos os campos de emparelhamento n--n e p--p podem ser tomados como funções reais de momento $vec{k}$. Já o cálculo do emparelhamento isovetorial n--p, baseia-se na decomposição deste campo em função dos propagadores de Gorkov. Como resultado principal, obteve-se que a inclusão de um novo vínculo $mu_{1}$ ao modelo permite soluções n--n, p--p e n--p para matéria nuclear simétrica. Fora da simetria, encontramos somente soluções n--n e p--p. Porém, nenhuma solução n--p isovetorial foi encontrada.