Coupled perturbed Hartree Fock properties

CPHF (coupled perturbed Hartree-Fock) ah initio method used for computing nonlinear optical properties... 

Dispersion of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Benzene An Ab Initio Time-Dependent Coupled-Perturbed Hartree-Fock Study Shashi P. Kama, Gautam B. Talapatra and Paras N. Prasad Journal of Chemical Physics 95 (1991) 5873-5881... 

The experimental measures of these molecular electric properties involve oscillating fields. Thus, the frequency-dependence effects should be considered when comparing the experimental results . Currently, there are fewer calculations of the frequency-dependent polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities than those of the static properties. Recent advances have enabled one to study the frequency dispersion effects of polyatomic molecules by ab initio methods In particular, the frequency-dependent polarizability a and hyperpolarizability y of short polyenes have been computed by using the time-dependent coupled perturbed Hartree-Fock method. The results obtained show that the dispersion of a increases with the increase in the optical frequency. At a given frequency, a and its relative dispersion increase with the chain length. Also, like a, the hyperpolarizability y values increase with the chain length. While the electronic static polarizability is smaller than the dynamic one, the vibrational contribution is smaller at optical frequencies. ... 

Apart from practical and computational sides, the SCF model has both intuitive appeal and formal mathematical advantages the Hartree-Fock solution is a well-defined one, with known mathematical properties (Brillouin theorem, Hellmann-Feynman theorem etc.). As an example one may mention the invariance of the coupled perturbed Hartree-Fock solution under a translation of the gauge of an external perturbing magnetic field 78). Such properties give the SCF approach a certain special position. 

In the following the polarizability and the first and second hyperpolarizabilities for urea calculated at the SCF level in vacuo and in water are reported. Both static and frequency dependent nonlinear properties have been calculated, with the Coupled Perturbed Hartree-Fock (CPHF) and Time Dependent-CPHF procedures that have been described above. The solvent model is the Polarizable Continuum Model (PCM) whereas vibrational averaging of the optical properties along the C-0 stretching coordinate has been obtained by the DiNa package both in vacuo and in solution. 

Soscun et al. report ab initio and DFT studies of the static and frequency-dependent a and y tensors for ethyne. The coupled perturbed Hartree-Fock (CPHF) method has been used for the static calculations and TDHF for the frequency-dependent properties, which have been calculated at 633 nm. New basis sets have been proposed. 

Second-order properties are often evaluated using coupled-perturbed Hartree-Fock (CPHF) theory. The CPHF wave function is essentially the first-order perturbed wave function, which, as we saw above, must include the negative-energy states. Thus, in the relativistic case, the CPHF method must include both the positive- and negative-energy states. 

Unlike the true propagator, the UCHF approximation is given by a simple closed formula and reqnires only minimum computational effort to evalnate on the fly if the orbitals are available. The nnconpled Hartree-Fock/Kohn-Sham approximation has almost completely vanished from the chemistry literature about 40 years ago when modem derivative techniques became available because of the poor results it produced for second-order properties. Some systematic expositions of analytical derivative methods still use it as a starting point, but it is in our opinion pedagogi-cally inappropriate, as it requires considerable effort to recover the coupled-perturbed Hartree-Fock results which can be derived in a simpler way. UCHF/UCKS is still used in some approximate theories, but we suspect that its only merit is easy computability. According to Geerlings et al. [29], the polarizabilities derived from the uncoupled density response function correlate well with accurate results but can be off by up to a factor of 2, and thus they are only qualitatively useful. Our results in Table 1 confirm this. 

Notice that in this MCSCF result, the multiplier of a is equal to the expectation value of the perturbation operator H,. We have thus obtained an analytical expression from which to determine the desired first- and second- order response properties. This analytical approach for determining the second-order properties is referred to as the coupled multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock (CMCHF) approach (Dalgaard and Jorgensen, 1978). 

These compounds have been the subject of several theoretical [7,11,13,20)] and experimental[21] studies. Ward and Elliott [20] measured the dynamic y hyperpolarizability of butadiene and hexatriene in the vapour phase by means of the dc-SHG technique. Waite and Papadopoulos[7,ll] computed static y values, using a Mac Weeny type Coupled Hartree-Fock Perturbation Theory (CHFPT) in the CNDO approximation, and an extended basis set. Kurtz [15] evaluated by means of a finite perturbation technique at the MNDO level [17] and using the AMI [22] and PM3[23] parametrizations, the mean y values of a series of polyenes containing from 2 to 11 unit cells. At the ab initio level, Hurst et al. [13] and Chopra et al. [20] studied basis sets effects on and y. It appeared that diffuse orbitals must be included in the basis set in order to describe correctly the external part of the molecules which is the most sensitive to the electrical perturbation and to ensure the obtention of accurate values of the calculated properties. 

The accurate calculation of these molecular properties requires the use of ab initio methods, which have increased enormously in accuracy and efficiency in the last three decades. Ab initio methods have developed in two directions first, the level of approximation has become increasingly sophisticated and, hence, accurate. The earliest ab initio calculations used the Hartree-Fock/self-consistent field (HF/SCF) methodology, which is the simplest to implement. Subsequently, such methods as Mpller-Plesset perturbation theory, multi-configuration self-consistent field theory (MCSCF) and coupled-cluster (CC) theory have been developed and implemented. Relatively recently, density functional theory (DFT) has become the method of choice since it yields an accuracy much greater than that of HF/SCF while requiring relatively little additional computational effort. 

There are also properties for which the magnitude is dependent upon transition intensity and for which accurate results can be obtained only with perturbation theory examples occur in currently much studied areas like NMR spectroscopy (described in Chapter 2), but also involve other properties like magnetic susceptibilities and refractive indices, which are not much studied from an electronic structure point of view (although we would argue that, due to advances in theory, such experimental techniques are ripe for further exploration). Within a Hartree-Fock approach the perturbation of a molecule by electric or magnetic fields can be calculated at a number of levels of theory. Coupled Hartree-Fock perturbation theory (Lipscomb, 1966 Ditchfield, 1974), which arrives at a self-... 

We saw in Section III that the polarization propagator is the linear response function. The linear response of a system to an external time-independent perturbation can also be obtained from the coupled Hartree-Fock (CHF) approximation provided the unperturbed state is the Hartree-Fock state of the system. Thus, RPA and CHF are the same approximation for time-independent perturbing fields, that is for properties such as spin-spin coupling constants and static polarizabilities. That we indeed obtain exactly the same set of equations in the two methods is demonstrated by Jorgensen and Simons (1981, Chapter 5.B). Frequency-dependent response properties in the... 

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