Hyperpolarizabilities electron-correlated functions

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... 

Abstract. We have calculated the scalar and tensor dipole polarizabilities (/3) and hyperpolarizabilities (7) of excited ls2p Po, ls2p P2- states of helium. Our theory includes fine structure of triplet sublevels. Semiempirical and accurate electron-correlated wave functions have been used to determine the static values of j3 and 7. Numerical calculations are carried out using sums of oscillator strengths and, alternatively, with the Green function for the excited valence electron. Specifically, we present results for the integral over the continuum, for second- and fourth-order matrix elements. The corresponding estimations indicate that these corrections are of the order of 23% for the scalar part of polarizability and only of the order of 3% for the tensor part... 

In two previous papers [8,9] we have calculated the static polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities for ls3p Pj (J = 0, 2)-states of helium. The method was based on degenerate perturbation-theory expressions for these quantities. The necessary dipole matrix elements were found by using the high-precision wave function on framework of the configuration-interaction (Cl) method [10]. The perturbed wave functions are also expanded in a basis of accurate variational eigenstates [11]. These basis sets of the wave functions explicitly take account of electron correlation. To control the result we have also carried out similar calculations with Fues model potential method. 

Molecular polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities are now routinely calculated in many computational packages and reported in publications that are not primarily concerned with these properties. Very often the calculated values are not likely to be of quantitative accuracy when compared with experimental data. One difficulty is that, except in the case of very small molecules, gas phase data is unobtainable and some allowance has to be made for the effect of the molecular environment in a condensed phase. Another is that the accurate determination of the nonlinear response functions requires that electron correlation should be treated accurately and this is not easy to achieve for the molecules that are of greatest interest. Very often the higher-level calculation is confined to zero frequency and the results scaled by using a less complete theory for the frequency dependence. Typically, ab initio studies use coupled-cluster methods for the static values scaled to frequencies where the effects are observable with time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory. Density functional methods require the introduction of specialized functions before they can cope with the hyperpolarizabilities and higher order magnetic effects. 

Hyperpolarizabilities can be calculated in a number of different ways. The quantum chemical calculations may be based on a perturbation approach that directly evaluates sum-over-states (SOS) expressions such as Eq. (14), or on differentiation of the energy or induced moments for which (electric field) perturbed wavefunctions and/or electron densities are explicitly calculated. These techniques may be implemented at different levels of approximation ranging from semi-empirical to density functional methods that account for electron correlation through approximations to the exact exchange-correlation functionals to high-level ab initio calculations which systematically include electron correlation effects. 

An adequate account of the electron correlation effects requires the use of basis sets of considerable sizes which include polarization and diffuse functions. The ab initio CC calculations with such basis sets are expensive. Thus more exact CC calculations of molecular optical parameters can be carried out only for relatively small molecules. In the calculations of polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities for larger a -systems more approximate methods need to be used. Such calculations still remain a difficult problem in quantum chemistry. 

FF/DFT and SOS/TDDFT calculations have been carried out to investigate the static first hyperpolarizability of two-dimensional A-ti-D-ji-A carbazole-core chromophores. For both approaches, the B3LYP exchange-correlation functional has been employed in combination with the 6-3IG basis set. In particular, they have concluded that carbazole heterocycles containing five heteroatoms are strong auxiliary electron donors and lead to larger first... 

This article considers ways of calculating nonresonant frequency-dependent polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities of molecules in the gas phase. This means that there is no consideration of solvent or surface effects. Nor is there any consideration of vibrational effects, which are covered in the article by Bishop. This article will concentrate on recent work. It has become clear that. Just as for static properties, it is necessary to use a high level of theory to get sensible results. In particular it is necessary to include electron correlation, and to use large, carefully chosen basis sets. Therefore this article considers ab initio methods rather than semi-empirical ones. Recent advances in density functional methods, however, are included, as they show promise for the future. 

Under some simplifications associated with the symmetry of fullerenes, it has been possible to perform calculations of type Hartree-Fock in which the interelec-tronic correlation has been included up to second order Mpller-Plesset (Moller et al. 1934 Purcell 1979 Cioslowski 1995), and calculations based on the density functional (Pople et al. 1976). However, given the difficulties faced by ab initio computations when all the electrons of these large molecules are taken into account, other semiempirical methods of the Hiickel type or tight-binding (Haddon 1992) models have been developed to determine the electronic structure of C60 (Cioslowski 1995 Lin and Nori 1996) and associated properties like polarizabilities (Bonin and Kresin 1997 Rubio et al. 1993) hyperpolarizabilities (Fanti et al. 1995) plasmon excitations (Bertsch et al. 1991) etc. These semiempirical models reproduce the order of monoelectronic levels close to the Fermi level. Other more sophisticated semiempirical models, like the PPP (Pariser-Parr-Pople) (Pariser and Parr 1953 Pople 1953) obtain better quantitative results when compared with photoemission experiments (Savage 1975). 

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