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Molecular Physics
An International Journal at the Interface Between Chemistry and Physics
Volume 118, 2020 - Issue 19-20: Special Issue of Molecular Physics in Honour of Jürgen Gauss
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Potential energy surfaces of charge transfer states

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Article: e1776903 | Received 16 Apr 2020, Accepted 21 May 2020, Published online: 16 Jun 2020
 

ABSTRACT

In this paper the potential energy curves of charge transfer (CT) electronic states and their interaction with local ones have been investigated. Besides the global view of these curves, special attention has been paid to the region of the crossing and the infinite separation limit. It was found that triple excitations are needed to accurately describe potential energy surfaces of CT states. Among the cheaper variants, both STEOM-CCSD and CCSD(T)(a)* methods are promising in this respect. The somewhat larger error of CCSD for CT states can be explained by its size extensivity error and the overestimation of the asymptotic excitation energy. Second order approximations are not advantageous for the error cancellation, in fact CC2 is much worse for CT states than any other method investigated here. The results also show that the location of the (avoided) crossings of local and CT states depend very much on the accurate description of the CT states. Failure to describe this topology might affect dynamics, and a warning, in particular in case of CC2, should be issued if CT states play a role in the physics of the problem.

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Acknowledgments

With this paper PGS and AT would like to thank Prof. Jürgen Gauss for his friendship and long lasting fruitful collaboration.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work has been supported by the National Research, Innovation and Development Fund (Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal–NKFIA) Grant No. 124293. R. Berraud-Pache thanks the Max Planck Society for financial support.

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