Correlation Effects of Third-order Perturbation in the Extended Hubbard Model

Abstract

Using the local approach, we have performed a third�order perturbation calculation to investigate the effects of intra-atomic electron correlation and electron and spin correlation between nearest neighbour sites in the extended Hubbard model. We found that significant correction of the third order over the second order results and, in comparison with the results of the third-order perturbation where only the intra-atomic electron correlation is included, the influence of the electron and spin correlation between nearest neighbour sites on the correlation energy is non-negligible.