Linear scaling local correlation cluster

Schiitz M, Werner H-J. Low-order scaling local electron correlation methods. IV. Linear scaling local coupled-cluster (LCCSD). J Chem Phys 2001 114 661-681. 

Linear Scaling Local Correlation Extensions of the Standard and Renormalized Coupled-Cluster Methods... 

In this chapter, we have reviewed our recent effort toward the extension of the linear scaling local correlation approach of Li and coworkers [38 0], abbreviated as CIM, to the standard CCSD approach and two CC methods with a non-iterative treatment of connected triply excited clusters, including the conventional CCSD(T) method and its completely renormalized CR-CC(2,3) analog [102] (see, also, W. Li and P. Piecuch, unpublished work). The local correlation formulation of the latter method based on the CIM formalism is particularly useful, since it enables one to obtain an accurate description of single bond breaking and biradicals, where CCSD(T) fails, with an ease of a black-box calculation of the CCSD(T) type [24-26, 109-117]. At the same time, CR-CC(2,3) is as accurate as CCSD(T) in applications involving closed-shell molecules near their equilibrium geometries. 

Electron Correlation Methods. IV. Linear Scaling Local Coupled-Cluster (LCCSD). 

Keywords Coupled-cluster theory Local correlation methods Cluster-inmolecule formalism Linear scaling algorithms Single-reference coupled-cluster methods CCSD approach CCSD(T) approach Completely renormalized coupled-cluster approaches CR-CC(2,3) approach Large molecular systems Bond breaking Normal alkanes Water clusters... 

Two relevant topics have been ignored completely in this short chapter the treatment of electron correlation with more sophisticated methods than DFT (that remains unsatisfactory from many points of view) and the related subject of excited states. Wave function-based methods for the calculation of electron correlation, like the perturbative Moller-Plesset (MP) expansion or the coupled cluster approximation, have registered an impressive advancement in the molecular context. The computational cost increases with the molecular size (as the fifth power in the most favorable cases), especially for molecules with low symmetry. That increase was the main disadvantage of these electron correlation methods, and it limited their application to tiny molecules. This scaling problem has been improved dramatically by modern reformulation of the theory by localized molecular orbitals, and now a much more favorable scaling is possible with the appropriate approximations. Linear scaling with such low prefactors has been achieved with MP schemes that the... 

Basis Sets Correlation Consistent Sets Configuration Interaction Coupled-cluster Theory Density Functional Applications Density Functional Theory Applications to Transition Metal Problems G2 Theory Integrals of Electron Repulsion Integrals Overlap Linear Scaling Methods for Electronic Structure Calculations Localized MO SCF Methods Mpller-Plesset Perturbation Theory Monte Carlo Quantum Methods for Electronic Structure Numerical Hartree-Fock Methods for Molecules Pseudospectral Methods in Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry Self-consistent Reaction Field Methods Symmetry in Hartree-Fock Theory. 

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