Within the HF approximation the interaction of
Eq.() leads to the following expression for the
total energy;
where is the spin of the
electron. The two charge
densities in the second (Hartree) term have been chosen to be the same
for simplicity. In the case of HF calculations performed using fixed
LDA orbitals, this corresponds to using the LDA charge density as the
`input' charge density to the interaction in the same way as is done
for VMC calculations.
The resultant HF equations obtained from minimising in
Eq.(
) with respect to the
are
Therefore the eigenvalue, , is given by
Eqs.() and (
) yield an analogue of Koopmans' theorem for adding an electron
where is the total energy of the system with an extra electron
added into the
orbital. Note that if
is replaced with the standard
we
retrieve the standard Koopmans' theorem.
The equivalent expression for removing an electron is
and therefore the HF energy gap, obtained using the expression for the
electron-electron interaction of Eq.() is given
by
Koopmans' theorem has therefore been modified. The interaction is, in a sense, including self-interaction like terms.