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trans- +‎ correlation

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transcorrelation (plural transcorrelations)

  1. (mathematics) A space- and time-averaged correlation.
    • 2016, Jennifer Kersten, George H. Booth, Ali Alavi, “Assessment of Multireference Approaches to Explicitly Correlated Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo”, in arXiv[1]:
      Here, we present a study that assesses and compares two contrasting `universal' explicitly correlated approaches that fit into the FCIQMC framework; the   method of Valeev {\em et al.}, and the explicitly correlated canonical transcorrelation approach of Yanai {\em et al}.