Embedding via the Exact Factorization Approach

Abstract

We present a quantum electronic embedding method derived from the exact factorization approach to calculate static properties of a many-electron system. The method is exact in principle but the practical power lies in utilizing input from a low-level calculation on the entire system in a high-level method computed on a small fragment, as in other embedding methods. Here, the exact factorization approach is used to define an embedding Hamiltonian on the fragment. Various Hubbard chain models demonstrate that remarkably accurate ground-state energies are obtained over the full range of weak to strongly correlated systems.