A two-step uncontracted determinantal effective Hamiltonian-based SO–CI method

We present a new two-step uncontracted spin-orbit configuration interaction (CI) method which automatically accounts for spin-orbit polarization effects on multiconfigurational wave functions by selecting the single excitations having a significant spin-orbit interaction with a chosen determinantal reference space. This approach is in the line of a conventional two-step method, as a sophisticated correlation treatment in a scalar relativistic approximation is carried out in the first step. In the second step, we define a model space which includes a set of reference configurations able to represent all the wanted states along with singly excited configurations selected with the spin-orbit (SO) operator. We then exploit the first-step calculation in order to include correlation effects via an effective Hamiltonian technique and diagonalize the full matrix on the determinantal basis. The method combines the advantages of both one-step and conventional two-step SO–CI methods; it intends to treat efficiently ...

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