Molecular Application of a State Specific Multi-Reference Brillouin-Wigner Perturbation Theory


AKSU H.

Chinese Physics Letters, vol.33, no.2, 2016 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 33 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Doi Number: 10.1088/0256-307x/33/2/023102
  • Journal Name: Chinese Physics Letters
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University Affiliated: No

Abstract

© 2016 Chinese Physical Society and IOP Publishing Ltd.The single reference second order Brillouin-Wigner perturbation theory recently developed, which eliminates its size-extensivity error, has been generalized to state-specific, multi-reference (SS-MR), BWPT2 providing a size-extensive correction to the electron correlation problem for systems that demand the use of a multi-reference function. Illustrative numerical tests of the size-extensivity corrections are made for widely used molecules in their ground states, which are pronounced multi-reference characteristics. We have implemented two-reference and three-reference cases for CH2, BH and bond breaking process in the ground states of HF molecules. The results are compared with the rigorously size-extensive methods such as the Møller-Plesset perturbation theory, i.e., MP2, full configuration interaction (Full-CI) and allied methods using the same basis sets.