We present an efficient method for reproducing CCSD(T) (i.e., the coupled-cluster method with single, double and perturbative connected triple excitations) optimized geometries and harmonic vibrational frequencies for molecular clusters with the N-body:Many-body QM:QM technique. In this work, all 1-body through N-body interactions are obtained from CCSD(T) computations, and the higher-order interactions are captured at the MP2 level. The linear expressions from the many-body expansion facilitate a straightforward evaluation of geometrical derivative properties (e.g., gradients and Hessians). For (H2O)n clusters (n = 3–7), optimized structures obtained with the 2-body:Many-body CCSD(T):MP2 method are virtually identical to CCSD(T) optimized geometries. Harmonic vibrational frequencies calculated with this 2-body:Many-body approach differ from CCSD(T) frequencies by at most a few cm−1. These deviations can be systematically reduced by including more terms from the many-body expansion at the CCSD(T) level. Maximum deviations between CCSD(T) and 3-body:Many-body CCSD(T):MP2 frequencies are typically only a few tenths of a cm−1 for the H2O clusters examined in this work. These results are obtained at a fraction of the wall time of the supermolecular CCSD(T) computation, and the approach is well-suited for parallelization on relatively modest computational hardware.
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14 November 2013
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November 13 2013
N-body:Many-body QM:QM vibrational frequencies: Application to small hydrogen-bonded clusters
J. Coleman Howard;
J. Coleman Howard
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Mississippi
, University, Mississippi 38677–1848, USA
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Gregory S. Tschumper
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Mississippi
, University, Mississippi 38677–1848, USA
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J. Chem. Phys. 139, 184113 (2013)
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Received:
August 29 2013
Accepted:
October 25 2013
Citation
J. Coleman Howard, Gregory S. Tschumper; N-body:Many-body QM:QM vibrational frequencies: Application to small hydrogen-bonded clusters. J. Chem. Phys. 14 November 2013; 139 (18): 184113. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4829463
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