A spin-flip variant of the second-order approximate coupled-cluster singles and doubles method

12 October 2022, Version 1
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Abstract

We report an implementation of a spin-flip variant of the second-order approximate coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CC2) method. The resolution-of-the-identity approximation or, alternatively, Cholesky decomposition of the two-electron integrals are used to reduce the memory requirements. We illustrate the performance of the new method by constructing potential energy curves of H2 and HF and by computing singlet-triplet splittings for various diradicals including some binuclear copper complexes that are of interest as molecular magnets. We find that spin-flip CC2 performs very similarly to the spin-flip variant of the algebraic diagrammatic construction scheme for the polarization propagator of second order (ADC(2)). Application to ozone shows that spin-flip CC2 predicts a barrierless symmetric dissociation of this molecule similar to spin-conserving CC2 and in contrast to spin-flip ADC(2) and coupled-cluster singles and doubles.

Keywords

electronic-structure theory
multiconfigurational wavefunctions
spin-flip methods
coupled-cluster theory

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Molecular structures, wave function analysis, and additional results for ozone
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