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Roberto C. Bochicchio

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Quantum Expectation Identities for the Three-State Model of a Molecular Domain

The electronic distribution of a molecular domain is examined in this study. A theoretical formulation of quantum molecular properties is presented using the Quantum Expectation Identity theorem (QEI), with a focus on the three-state model of the density matrix for the quantum state of a molecular domain as an open system. The report examines the relationship between ab initio statistical fluctuation-correlation theorems for quantum observables and their derivatives. We focus on three main quantities of a domain: the electronic population, its chemical potential, and its maximum capacity for accepting or donating charge with the neighbors. The analytical expressions for the quantities are presented and discussed in detail. At the end, we explore the concept of quantum purity and its proper application in the molecular domain.

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Chemical descriptors, convexity and structure of density matrices in molecular systems

The electron energy and density matrices in molecular systems are convex in respect of the number of particles. So that, the chemical descriptors based on their derivatives present the hamper of discontinuities for isolated systems and consequently higher order derivatives are undefined. The introduction of the interaction between the physical domain with an environment induces a coherent structure for the density matrix in the grand-canonical formulation suppressing the discontinuities leading to the proper definitions of the descriptors.

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Domain-averaged Fermi hole versus regional reduced density matrices: a critical comparison

In their recent work Cooper and Ponec [Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2008, 10, 1319-1329] proposed a ``one-electron approximation to domain-averaged Fermi hole (DAFH)" used in electronic population studies. The goal of this comment is to note that the proposal had been already published within the framework of domain-restricted reduced density matrices ($\mathrmΩ$-RDM) and to show that it cannot conceptually be considered as an approximation to DAFH as the authors invoke.

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