The three-step model (TSM) of high-harmonic generation (HHG) is generalized to atomic and molecular many-electron systems. Using many-body perturbation theory, corrections to the standard TSM due to exchange and electron-electron correlations are derived. It is shown that canonical Hartree-Fock orbitals represent the most appropriate set of one-electron states for calculating the HHG spectrum. ...

We devise a non-Hermitian Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation theory for the singleand the multireference case to tackle both the many-body problem and the decay problem encountered, for example, in the study of electronic resonances in molecules. A complex absorbing potential (CAP) is employed to facilitate a treatment of resonance states that is similar to the well-established boundstate techni...

In this paper we further develop a general theory of metastable states resulting from perturbation of unstable eigenvalues. We apply this theory to many-body Schrödinger operators and to the problem of quasiclassical tunneling.

A biorthogonal formulation is applied to the non-Hermite transcorrelated Hamiltonian, which treats a large amount of the dynamic correlation effects implicitly. We introduce biorthogonal canonical orbitals diagonalizing the non-Hermitian Fock operator. We also formulate many-body perturbation theory for the transcorrelated Hamiltonian. The biorthogonal self-consistent field followed by the seco...