Coupled Cluster Approaches for Modeling Large Molecular Systems in Various Environments
Presenter
September 29, 2008
Keywords:
- Molecular
MSC:
- 92E10
Abstract
Joint work with Marat Valiev, Niri Govind, Peng-Dong Fan,
W.A. de Jong
(William R Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory and
Chemical Sciences Division,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
P.O. Box 999, MS K1-96, Richland, WA 99352) and Jeff R. Hammond
(The University of Chicago).
The coupled-cluster (CC) methodology has become a leading
formalism not only in gas-phase calculations but also in
modeling systems for which the inclusion of the surrounding
environment is critical for a comprehensive understanding of
complex photochemical reactions. At the same time it has been
proven that high-level CC formalisms are capable of providing
highly adequate characterization of excitation energies and
excited-state potential energy surfaces. With the ever
increasing power of computer platforms and highly scalable
codes, very accurate QM/MM calculations for large molecules
(defining the quantum region) can be routinely performed in the
foreseeable future even with iterative methods accounting for
the effect of triples ( CCSDT-n/EOMCCSDT-n). We will discuss
several components of recently developed and implemented CC
methodologies in NWChem. This includes: (1) Novel
iterative/non-iterative methods accounting for the effect of
triply excited configurations, (2) Massively parallel
implementations of the CC theories based on the manifold of
singly and doubly excited configurations. Several examples will
illustrate how these approaches can be used in multiscale
QM/MM framework.