A full-configuration-interaction nuclear orbital approach and application for small doped He clusters

An efficient full-configuration-interaction "nuclear orbital" treatment was developed as a benchmark quantum-chemistry-like method to calculate, ground and excited, fermionic "solvent" wave-functions and applied to 3HeN clusters with atomic or molecular impurities [J. Chem. Phys. (Communication) 125, 221101 (2006)]. The main difficulty in handling doped 3HeN clusters lies in the Fermi-Dirac nuclear statistics, the wide amplitudes of the He-dopant and He-He motions, and the hard-core He-He interaction at short distances. This paper overviews the theoretical approach and its recent applications to energetic, structural and spectroscopic aspects of different dopant-3HeN clusters. Preliminary results by using the latest version of the FCI-NO computational implementation, to bosonic Cl2(X)-(4He)N clusters, are also shown.