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Numerical Methods In Chemistry
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Configuration Interaction (CI) and Truncation Errors
Full Configuration Interaction (FCI) is computationally intractable for all but the smallest systems, scaling factorially with system size. Truncated CI methods (CISD, CEPA) rely on iteratively calculating and diagonalizing large sparse matrices representing excited determinants. A known numerical artifact in CI calculations on molecules containing [silicon (Si)](/…