Abstract
The use of the mutual information (MI) as a measure of the entanglement in quantum systems has gained a consensus in recent years, even if there is an ongoing effort to distinguish the classical and quantum contributions contained therein. This quantity has been first introduced in condensed matter physics, in particular, in studies based on the density matrix renormalization group method. This method has been successfully adapted to quantum chemistry problems, opening the way to compute MI also in molecular systems. A key aspect of this quantity is its dependence on the one-electron (orbital) basis set, even for wave functions that are invariant under unitary transformation of the orbitals. In this work, we investigate the role of the orbital basis set (delocalized or localized, following different strategies) for wave functions expressed as linear combinations of Slater determinants and we give the analytic expression for the MI for a few special cases. This study aims to improve the knowledge of the relationship between the characteristics of the chemical bond (considering a few paradigmatic molecules, H2, F2, N2, and short linear polyenes) and the properties of interest in the field of quantum information theory.
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