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Eric Prochnow

Analytic gradients for Mukherjee’s multireference coupled-cluster method using two-configurational self-consistent-field orbitals

Analytic gradients for the state-specific multireference coupled-cluster method suggested by Mahapatra et al. [Mol. Phys. 94, 157 (1998)] (Mk-MRCC) are reported within the singles and doubles approximation using two-configurational self-consistent field (TCSCF) orbitals. The present implementation extends our previous work on Mk-MRCC gradients [E. Prochnow et al., J. Chem. Phys. 131, 064109 (2009)] which is based on restricted Hartree-Fock orbitals and consequently the main focus of the present paper is on the treatment of orbital relaxation at the TCSCF level using coupled-perturbed TCSCF theory. Geometry optimizations on m-arynes and nitrenes are presented to illustrate the influence of t…

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Analytic gradients for the state-specific multireference coupled cluster singles and doubles model.

The general theory of analytic energy gradients is presented for the state-specific multireference coupled cluster method introduced by Mukherjee and co-workers [Mol. Phys. 94, 157 (1998)], together with an implementation within the singles and doubles approximation, restricted to two closed-shell determinants and Hartree-Fock orbitals. Expressions for the energy gradient are derived based on a Lagrangian formalism and cast in a density-matrix notation suitable for implementation in standard quantum-chemical program packages. In the present implementation, we exploit a decomposition of the multireference coupled cluster gradient expressions, i.e., lambda equations and the corresponding dens…

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Quantitative prediction of gas-phase N15 and P31 nuclear magnetic shielding constants

High-level ab initio benchmark calculations of the (15)N and (31)P NMR chemical shielding constants for a representative set of molecules are presented. The computations have been carried out at the Hartree-Fock self-consistent field (HF-SCF), density functional theory (DFT) (B-P86 and B3-LYP), second-order Moller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2), coupled cluster singles and doubles (CCSD), and CCSD augmented by a perturbative treatment of triple excitations [CCSD(T)] level of theory using basis sets of triple zeta quality or better. The influence of the geometry, the treatment of electron correlation, as well as basis set and zero-point vibrational effects on the shielding constants are d…

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Parallel Calculation of CCSDT and Mk-MRCCSDT Energies.

A scheme for the parallel calculation of energies at the coupled-cluster singles, doubles, and triples (CCSDT) level of theory, several approximate iterative CCSDT schemes (CCSDT-1a, CCSDT-1b, CCSDT-2, CCSDT-3, and CC3), and for the state-specific multireference coupled-cluster ansatz suggested by Mukherjee with a full treatment of triple excitations (Mk-MRCCSDT) is presented. The proposed scheme is based on the adaptation of a highly efficient serial coupled-cluster code leading to a communication-minimized implementation by parallelizing the time-determining steps. The parallel algorithm is tailored for affordable cluster architectures connected by standard communication networks such as …

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Perturbative triples corrections in state-specific multireference coupled cluster theory

We formulated and implemented a perturbative triples correction for the state-specific multireference coupled cluster approach with singles and doubles suggested by Mukherjee and co-workers, Mk-MRCCSD [Mol. Phys. 94, 157 (1998)]. Our derivation of the energy correction [Mk-MRCCSD(T)] is based on a constrained search for stationary points of the Mk-MRCC energy functional together with a perturbative expansion with respect to the appearing triples cluster operator. The Lambda-Mk-MRCCSD(T) approach derived in this way consists in (1) a correction to the off-diagonal matrix elements of the effective Hamiltonian which is unique to coupled cluster methods based on the Jeziorski-Monkhorst ansatz, …

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