The computational bottleneck of the extremely fast simplified Tamm-Dancoff approximated (sTDA) time-dependent density functional theory procedure [S. Grimme, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 244104 (2013)] for the computation of electronic spectra for large systems is the determination of the ground state Kohn-Sham orbitals and eigenvalues. This limits such treatments to single structures with a few hundred atoms and hence, e.g., sampling along molecular dynamics trajectories for flexible systems or the calculation of chromophore aggregates is often not possible. The aim of this work is to solve this problem by a specifically designed semi-empirical tight binding (TB) procedure similar to the well established self-consistent-charge density functional TB scheme. The new special purpose method provides orbitals and orbital energies of hybrid density functional character for a subsequent and basically unmodified sTDA procedure. Compared to many previous semi-empirical excited state methods, an advantage of the ansatz is that a general eigenvalue problem in a non-orthogonal, extended atomic orbital basis is solved and therefore correct occupied/virtual orbital energy splittings as well as Rydberg levels are obtained. A key idea for the success of the new model is that the determination of atomic charges (describing an effective electron-electron interaction) and the one-particle spectrum is decoupled and treated by two differently parametrized Hamiltonians/basis sets. The three-diagonalization-step composite procedure can routinely compute broad range electronic spectra (0-8 eV) within minutes of computation time for systems composed of 500-1000 atoms with an accuracy typical of standard time-dependent density functional theory (0.3-0.5 eV average error). An easily extendable parametrization based on coupled-cluster and density functional computed reference data for the elements H–Zn including transition metals is described. The accuracy of the method termed sTDA-xTB is first benchmarked for vertical excitation energies of open- and closed-shell systems in comparison to other semi-empirical methods and applied to exemplary problems in electronic spectroscopy. As side products of the development, a robust and efficient valence electron TB method for the accurate determination of atomic charges as well as a more accurate calculation scheme of dipole rotatory strengths within the Tamm-Dancoff approximation is proposed.
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7 August 2016
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August 01 2016
Ultra-fast computation of electronic spectra for large systems by tight-binding based simplified Tamm-Dancoff approximation (sTDA-xTB)
Stefan Grimme;
Stefan Grimme
a)
Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie,
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn,
Beringstraße 4, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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Christoph Bannwarth
Christoph Bannwarth
Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie,
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn,
Beringstraße 4, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail: grimme@thch.uni-bonn.de
J. Chem. Phys. 145, 054103 (2016)
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Received:
May 24 2016
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July 13 2016
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Stefan Grimme, Christoph Bannwarth; Ultra-fast computation of electronic spectra for large systems by tight-binding based simplified Tamm-Dancoff approximation (sTDA-xTB). J. Chem. Phys. 7 August 2016; 145 (5): 054103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4959605
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