is it possible to output the full Hamiltonian Matrix during a calculation? I ask because I want to get access to hopping parameters of my molecule and those are the elements of the Hamiltonian (see image).
Also, can I choose what orbitals to run a calculation with? For instance, can I choose to only run the s-orbitals available in my molecule for that?
Can I ask what your background is in and what kinds of systems you’re interested in? It sounds like you’re interested in toy systems and are not a chemist by training.
I have a physics background but one of my projects deals with a peptide where I need to know the Hamiltonian of my system for a given set of orbitals. But before I get to that I want to know how to get the Hamiltonian for the simplest case. And the simplest case for me would be the Hubbard chain.
I don’t know what you mean by “know the Hamiltonian of my system for a given set of orbitals.” For any set of orthonormal orbitals, the molecular Hamiltonian is given as a linear combination of second quantized operators, with expansion coefficients given by one and two-electron integrals. Are you asking how you can get a program to compute the integrals for you? Are you trying to learn how to compute the integrals “from scratch”?
Psi is designed for molecular systems and does not support a Hubbard chain.
The “only s-orbital” approximation is not even qualitatively correct for most atoms. For hydrogen atoms, it’s qualitatively correct. Choose a STO-3G or STO-6G basis set, which is the bare minimum.
Forming the Hamiltonian matrix for a molecule is prohibitively expensive and is only ever done for pedagogical purposes. See here for an example.
This sounds like a question of basic Psi4 syntax. If you want to learn how to write an input file to compute the energy of H2 in the STO-3G basis set, please consult the many sample inputs we have available and read the manual.
If you still have a question after that, ask again.
I did the H2 example for the STO-3G basis. Reading through the manual I can see that what I want is probably given by the keyword HEFF_PRINT. But how do I set it to true? I did ‘set psimrcc HEFF_PRINT TRUE’ but that didn’t output me the Hamiltonian. Any ideas?
EDIT: I think I got it. Setting
Escf, scf_wfn = energy(‘SCF’, molecule=h2o, return_wfn=True)
scf_wfn.H().print_out()
I managed to print out the one-electron Hamiltonian.
set psimrcc heff_print true will only affect the PSIMRCC module, which I assure you is not what you want.
scf_wfn.H() is what quantum chemists call the core Hamiltonian. It is the matrix representation of the one-electron part of the Hamiltonian acting on the one-electron space. It does not represent the two-electron part of the Hamiltonian or wavefunctions of more than two electrons.
If you really want the Hamiltonian, see the link I included in my previous post.
And for the record, I still don’t know what you actually want. Do you want numerical values for matrix elements of the Hamiltonian between two-electron states of H2? Do you want formulas for those numerical values expressed in terms of integrals? Do you want formulas for the integrals?