Abstract
We consider the performance of combined PNO-F12 approaches for the interaction energies of water clusters as large as (H2O)20 by comparison to canonical CCSD(T)/CBS reference values obtained through n-body decomposition of post-MP2 corrections. We find that PNO-LCCSD(T)-F12b approaches with "Tight"cutoffs are generally capable of reproducing canonical CCSD(T) interaction energies to within ∼0.25% and isomerization energies to ∼1.5%, while requiring only a fraction of the canonical computational cost. However, basis set convergence patterns and effect of counterpoise corrections are more erratic than for canonical calculations, highlighting the need for canonical benchmarks on closely related systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 020003 |
| Journal | AIP conference proceedings |
| Volume | 2343 |
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| Publication status | Published - 30 Mar 2021 |
| Event | International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2020, ICCMSE 2020 - Crete, Greece Duration: 29 Apr 2020 → 3 May 2020 |
Funding
Research at Weizmann was funded by the Israel Science Foundation (grant 1358/15) and by the Estate of Emile Mimran. NS acknowledges a doctoral fellowship from the Feinberg Graduate School at the Weizmann Institute. The authors would like to thank Profs. Frank Neese and Hans-Joachim Werner for helpful discussions.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Physics and Astronomy