A single reference coupled cluster theory that is capable of including the effect of connected triple excitations has been developed and implemented. This is achieved by regrouping the terms appearing in perturbation theory and parametrizing through two different sets of exponential operators: while one of the exponentials, involving general substitution operators, annihilates the ground state but has a non-vanishing effect when it acts on the excited determinant, the other is the regular single and double excitation operator in the sense of conventional coupled cluster theory, which acts on the Hartree-Fock ground state. The two sets of operators are solved as coupled non-linear equations in an iterative manner without significant increase in computational cost than the conventional coupled cluster theory with singles and doubles excitations. A number of physically motivated and computationally advantageous sufficiency conditions are invoked to arrive at the working equations and have been applied to determine the ground state energies of a number of small prototypical systems having weak multi-reference character. With the knowledge of the correlated ground state, we have reconstructed the triple excitation operator and have performed equation of motion with coupled cluster singles, doubles, and triples to obtain the ionization potential and excitation energies of these molecules as well. Our results suggest that this is quite a reasonable scheme to capture the effect of connected triple excitations as long as the ground state remains weakly multi-reference.
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21 August 2017
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August 15 2017
A coupled cluster theory with iterative inclusion of triple excitations and associated equation of motion formulation for excitation energy and ionization potential
Rahul Maitra;
Rahul Maitra
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Computational Molecular Science Research Team, RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science
, Kobe 650-0047, Japan
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Yoshinobu Akinaga;
Yoshinobu Akinaga
2
VINAS Co., Ltd.
, Osaka 530-0003, Japan
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Takahito Nakajima
Takahito Nakajima
1
Computational Molecular Science Research Team, RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science
, Kobe 650-0047, Japan
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J. Chem. Phys. 147, 074103 (2017)
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Received:
May 30 2017
Accepted:
July 27 2017
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Rahul Maitra, Yoshinobu Akinaga, Takahito Nakajima; A coupled cluster theory with iterative inclusion of triple excitations and associated equation of motion formulation for excitation energy and ionization potential. J. Chem. Phys. 21 August 2017; 147 (7): 074103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4985916
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