Basis sets dispersion coefficient

In the next section we derive the Taylor expansion of the coupled cluster cubic response function in its frequency arguments and the equations for the required expansions of the cluster amplitude and Lagrangian multiplier responses. For the experimentally important isotropic averages 7, 7i and yx we give explicit expressions for the A and higher-order coefficients in terms of the coefficients of the Taylor series. In Sec. 4 we present an application of the developed approach to the second hyperpolarizability of the methane molecule. We test the convergence of the hyperpolarizabilities with respect to the order of the expansion and investigate the sensitivity of the coefficients to basis sets and correlation treatment. The results are compared with dispersion coefficients derived by least square fits to experimental hyperpolarizability data or to pointwise calculated hyperpolarizabilities of other ab inito studies. 

In Table 3 we have listed the results of a basis set and correlation study for the hyperpolarizability dispersion coefficients. In a previous investigation of the basis set effects on the dispersion coefficients for the first hyperpolarizability (3 of ammonia [22] we found quite different trends for the static hyperpolarizability and for the dispersion coefficients. While the static hyperpolarizability was very sensitive to the inclusion of diffuse functions, the dispersion coefficients remained almost unchanged on augmentation of the basis set with additional diffuse functions, but the results obtained with the CC2 and CCSD models, which include dynamic electron correlation, showed large changes with an increase of the... 

The dispersion coefficients for the mixed-symmetry component 7 5 which describes the deviation from Kleinman symmetry are for methane more than an order of magnitude smaller than coefficients of the same order in the frequencies for 7. Their varations with basis sets and wavefunction models are, however, of comparable absolute size and give rise to very large relative changes for the mixed-symmetry dispersion coefficients. 

From a basis set study at the CCSD level for the static hyperpolarizability we concluded in Ref. [45] that the d-aug-cc-pVQZ results for 7o is converged within 1 - 2% to the CCSD basis set limit. The small variations for the A, B and B coefficients between the two triple zeta basis sets and the d-aug-cc-pVQZ basis, listed in Table 4, indicate that also for the first dispersion coefficients the remaining basis set error in d-aug-cc-pVQZ basis is only of the order of 1 - 2%. This corroborates that the results for the frequency-dependent hyperpolarizabilities obtained in Ref. [45] by a combination of the static d-aug-cc-pVQZ hyperpolarizability with dispersion curves calculated using the smaller t-aug-cc-pVTZ basis set are close to the CCSD basis set limit. 

Table 3 Comparison of the dispersion coefficients for 7 and 7 for different basis sets and coupled cluster models.

The Ce dispersion coefficients for dipole dipole dispersion between pairs of interacting species, the coefficients for terms involving higher multipolar dispersion, and coefficients for three-body dispersion terms can be and have been evaluated by ab initio techniques [114 119] as well as through relations to experimental optical data based on moments of the dipole oscillator strength [120 122]. These are parameters of the interaction, not properties. However, as noted in Section IVA, values for Ce coefficients of like pairs (e.g., A-A), and possibly for other dispersion coefficients, can be used in simple [Eq. (4)] or in more complete forms [Eq. (2)] as an intrinsic property of a molecule. The basis set and correlation requirements for adequate evaluation show, in part, the same requirements for describing polarizabilities however, there are further needs and other than atom-centered functions are seen as being suited [49 52]. 

A time-dependent coupled cluster theory with unrestricted electron spins and full treatment of orbital rotation has been implemented to calculate the polarizabilities and dispersion coefficients. Illustration calculations on Li, Ar, HCl, CO, N2, O2, and H2O at the coupled cluster singles and doubles level have demonstrated the reliabihty of the method. Comparisons with HF and MP2 results have further shown the importance of high-order electron correlation effects whereas basis sets of the aug-cc-pVXZ family have been compared. 

Two variations of the new VVIO functional were established [78], and a new, simpler " and the corresponding analytic gradients were derived. A self-consistent version with Gaussian basis sets was implemented in Q-CHEM. For r y - 0 the correlation kernel of VVIO approaches a constant, thereby satisfying the known constraint [41]. Parameters in VVIO were fixed to reproduce the compilation of dispersion coefficients from [76] and S22 benchmark energies for the combination ... 

At any level in the transition region, there will be a balance between the mixing effects attributable to (a) axial dispersion and to (b) the segregating effect which will depend on the difference between the interstitial velocity of the liquid and that interstitial velocity which would be required to produce a bed of the same voidage for particles of that size on their own. On this basis a model may be set up to give the vertical concentration profile of each component in terms of the axial mixing coefficients for the large and the small particles. 

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