Externally corrected energy correcting approaches

The results for N2 are summarized in Table 3. The bond is streched from 2.15 a.u. up to 3.00 a.u. Opposite to the previous molecules, even at the equilibrium geometry CCSD does not perform as well as the other approaches. For the [6e/6o] active space, it differs from FCI by 12.9 mHa, while CAS-SDCI does it by 8.3 mHa, (SCf CAS-SDCI by 3.9 mHa and ec-CCSD by 2.0 mHa or 1.8 mHa, depending on the external correcting source. Again, one may observe that the minimal dressing of CAS-SDCI not only makes it size-extensive, but also improves the absolute value of the yielded energy. 

The above presented data clearly demonstrate the usefulness of the ec CC approaches at both the SR and MR levels. While in the SR case the energy is fully determined by the one- and two-body clusters, and the truncation of the CC chain of equations at the CCSD level can be made exact by accounting for the three- and four-body clusters, the MR case is much more demanding, since the higher-than-pair clusters appear already in the effective Hamiltonian. An introduction of the external corrections is thus... 

The purpose of the present paper is to review the most essential elements of the excited-state MMCC theory and various approximate methods that result from it, including the aforementioned CR-EOMCCSD(T) [49,51,52,59] and externally corrected MMCC ]47-50, 52] approaches. In the discussion of approximate methods, we focus on the MMCC corrections to EOMCCSD energies due to triple excitations, since these corrections lead to the most practical computational schemes. Although some of the excited-state MMCC methods have already been described in our earlier reviews [49, 50, 52], it is important that we update our earlier work by the highly promising new developments that have not been mentioned before. For example, since the last review ]52], we have successfully extended the CR-EOMCCSD(T) methods to excited states of radicals and other open-shell systems ]59]. We have also developed a new type of the externally cor-... 

An interesting alternative to the externally corrected MMCC methods, discussed in Section 3.1.1, is offered by the CR-EOMCCSD(T) approach [49, 51,52,59]. The CR-EOMCCSD(T) method can be viewed as an extension of the ground-state CR-CCSD(T) approach of Refs. [61,62], which overcomes the failures of the standard CCSD(T) approximations when diradicals [76,104,105] and potential energy surfaces involving single bond breaking and single bond insertion [49,50,52,60-62,65,67,69,70,72,73] are examined, to excited states. 

For these and other reasons, much attention was given to the so-called state-selective or state-specific (SS) MR CC approaches. These are basically of two types (i) essentially SR CCSD methods that employ MR CC Ansatz to select a subset of important higher-than-pair clusters that are then incorporated either in a standard way [163,164], or implicitly [109-117], or via the so-called externally corrected (ec) approaches of either the amplimde [214-219] or energy [220,221] type, and (ii) those actually exploiting Bloch equations, but focusing on one state at a time [222]. The energy-correcting ec CC approaches [220,221] are in fact very closely related to the renormalized CCSD(T) method of Kowalski and Piecuch mentioned earlier [146,147]. 

The book is organized as follows. In the introductory part we briefly discuss the main theoretical approaches to the physics of weakly bound two-particle systems. A detailed discussion then follows of the nuclear spin independent corrections to the energy levels. First, we discuss corrections which can be calculated in the external field approximation. Second, we turn to the essentially two-particle recoil and radiative-recoil corrections. Consideration of the spin-independent corrections is completed with discussion of the nuclear size and structure contributions. A special section is devoted to the spin-independent... 

The higher-order two-loop corrections are to be calculated within the so-called external filed approximation (i. e. neglecting by the nuclear motion), while the recoil effects require an essential two-body treatment. There are a few approaches to solve the two-body problem (see e.g. [31]). Most start with the Green function of the two-body system which has to have a pole at the energy of the bound state... 

When the external electric field is time-dependent, there is no well-defined energy of the molecular system in accordance with Eq. (100), and the wave function response can thus not be retrieved from a variational condition on the energy as in the analytic derivative approach described above. Instead the response parameters have to be determined from the time-dependent Schrodinger equation, a procedure which was illustrated in Section 3 for the exact state case. In approximate state theories, however, our wave function space only partially spans the 7V-electron Hilbert space, and the response functions that correspond to an approximate state wave function will clearly be separate from those of the exact state wave function. This fact is disregarded in the sum-over-states approach, and, apart from the computational aspect of slowly converging SOS expressions, it is of little concern when highly accurate wave function models are used. But for less flexible wave function models, the correct response functions should be used in the calculation of nonlinear optical properties. 

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