Monte Carlo configuration interaction applied to multipole moments, ionisation energies and electron affinities
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of computational chemistry. - 1984. - 34(2013), 13 vom: 15. Mai, Seite 1083-93 |
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| Sprache: | English |
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2013
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Journal of computational chemistry |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Nitric Oxide 31C4KY9ESH Carbon Monoxide 7U1EE4V452 Nitrogen N762921K75 |
| Zusammenfassung: | Copyright © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The method of Monte Carlo configuration interaction (MCCI) (Greer, J. Chem. Phys. 1995a, 103, 1821; Tong, Nolan, Cheng, and Greer, Comp. Phys. Comm. 2000, 142, 132) is applied to the calculation of multipole moments. We look at the ground and excited state dipole moments in carbon monoxide. We then consider the dipole of NO, the quadrupole of N2 and of BH. An octupole of methane is also calculated. We consider experimental geometries and also stretched bonds. We show that these nonvariational quantities may be found to relatively good accuracy when compared with full configuration interaction results, yet using only a small fraction of the full configuration interaction space. MCCI results in the aug-cc-pVDZ basis are seen to generally have reasonably good agreement with experiment. We also investigate the performance of MCCI when applied to ionisation energies and electron affinities of atoms in an aug-cc-pVQZ basis. We compare the MCCI results with full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (Booth and Alavi, J. Chem. Phys. 2010, 132, 174104; Cleland, Booth, and Alavi, J. Chem. Phys. 2011, 134, 024112) and "exact" nonrelativistic results (Booth and Alavi, J. Chem. Phys. 2010, 132, 174104; Cleland, Booth, and Alavi, J. Chem. Phys. 2011, 134, 024112). We show that MCCI could be a useful alternative for the calculation of atomic ionisation energies however electron affinities appear much more challenging for MCCI. Due to the small magnitude of the electron affinities their percentage errors can be high, but with regards to absolute errors MCCI performs similarly for ionisation energies and electron affinities |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 02.07.2014 Date Revised 09.04.2013 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1096-987X |
| DOI: | 10.1002/jcc.23211 |