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Abstract
Understanding the electronic structure of amino acids is crucial for understanding protein structure and function. We interfaced quantum information indices and ab initio quantum chemistry methods to quantify the locality correlation between neighboring amino acids. Quantum chemical information from the 1-, 2- and multi-orbital Reduced Density Matrices (RDMs) was employed to extract the mutual information (MI) and reveal local correlation patterns among constituent atoms.
