Combining active-space coupled-cluster methods with moment energy corrections via the CC(P;Q) methodology, with benchmark calculations for biradical transition states
Abstract
We have recently suggested the CC(P;Q) methodology that can correct energies obtained in the active-space coupled-cluster (CC) or equation-of-motion (EOM) CC calculations, which recover much of the nondynamical and some dynamical electron correlation effects, for the higher-order, mostly dynamical, correlations missing in the active-space CC/EOMCC considerations. It is shown that one can greatly improve the description of biradical transition states, both in terms of the resulting energy barriers and total energies, by combining the CC approach with singles, doubles, and active-space triples, termed CCSDt, with the CC(P;Q)-style correction due to missing triple excitations defining the CC(t;3) approximation.
- Publication:
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Journal of Chemical Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 2012
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- Bibcode:
- 2012JChPh.136n4104S
- Keywords:
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- coupled cluster calculations;
- electron correlations;
- free radicals;
- total energy;
- 31.15.bw;
- 31.15.V-;
- Clusters: electronic properties equilibrium geometries coupled-cluster theory;
- Electron correlation calculations for atoms ions and molecules