Analytical gradients of the second-order Møller–Plesset energy using Cholesky decompositionsShow others and affiliations
2014 (English)In: International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, ISSN 0020-7608, E-ISSN 1097-461X, Vol. 114, no 5, p. 321-327Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
An algorithm for computing analytical gradients of the second-order Møller–Plesset (MP2) energy using density fitting (DF) is presented. The algorithm assumes that the underlying canonical Hartree–Fock reference is obtained with the same auxiliary basis set, which we obtain by Cholesky decomposition (CD) of atomic electron repulsion integrals. CD is also used for the negative semidefinite MP2 amplitude matrix. Test calculations on the weakly interacting dimers of the S22 test set (Jurečka et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2006, 8, 1985) show that the geometry errors due to the auxiliary basis set are negligible. With double-zeta basis sets, the error due to the DF approximation in intermolecular bond lengths is better than 0.1 pm. The computational time is typically reduced by a factor of 6–7.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2014. Vol. 114, no 5, p. 321-327
Keywords [en]
Cholesky decomposition, density fitting, MP2, analytic gradients
National Category
Theoretical Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-210533DOI: 10.1002/qua.24563ISI: 000329794400003OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-210533DiVA, id: diva2:663020
2013-11-082013-11-082017-12-06Bibliographically approved