An efficient procedure to evaluate long-range coulombic interactions within the framework of the LCAO-CO method for infinite polymers

A very efficient and exact method for calculating the long-range effects in polymers is reported. The method is based on the multipole expansion within the Fock operator, and exact summation up to infinity is carried out. Only a small number of one-electron integrals have to be considered, while in the traditional approach one has to compute a large number of two-electron integrals. Results on LiH model polymer have been obtained with a remarkable accuracy within a negligible computing time.