Efficient and accurate approximations to the local coupled cluster singles 
doubles method using a truncated pair natural orbital basis

Neese, Frank; Hansen, Andreas; Liakos, Dimitrios G.

doi:10.1063/1.3173827

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Efficient and accurate approximations to the local coupled cluster singles doubles method using a truncated pair natural orbital basis

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Neese, F., Hansen, A., & Liakos, D. G. (2009). Efficient and accurate approximations to the local coupled cluster singles doubles method using a truncated pair natural orbital basis. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 131(6): 064103. doi:10.1063/1.3173827.

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Abstract

A production level implementation of the closed-shell local quadratic configuration interaction and coupled cluster methods with single and double excitations (QCISD and CCSD) based on the concept of pair natural orbitals [local pair natural orbital LPNO-QCISD and LPNO-CCSD) is reported, evaluated, and discussed. This work is an extension of the earlier developed LPNO coupled-electron pair approximation (LNPO-CEPA) method [F. Neese et al., Chem. Phys. 130, 114108 (2009)] and makes extended use of the resolution of the identity (RI) or density fitting (DF) approximation. Two variants of each method are compared. The less accurate approximations (LPNO₂-QCISD/LPNO₂-CCSD) still recover 98.7%–99.3% of the correlation energy in the given basis and have modest disk space requirements. The more accurate variants (LPNO₁-QCISD/LPNO₁-CCSD) typically recover 99.75%–99.95% of the correlation energy in the given basis but require the Coulomb and exchange operators with up to two-external indices to be stored on disk. Both variants have comparable computational efficiency. The convergence of the results with respect to the natural orbital truncation parameter (T_CutPNO) has been studied. Extended numerical tests have been performed on absolute and relative correlation energies as function of basis set size and T_CutPNO
as well as on reaction energies, isomerization energies, and weak intermolecular interactions. The results indicate that the errors of the LPNO methods compared to the canonical QCISD and CCSD methods are below 1 kcal/mol with our default thresholds. Finally, some calculations on larger molecules are reported (ranging from 40–86 atoms) and it is shown that for medium sized molecules the total wall clock time required to complete the LPNO-CCSD calculations is only two to four times that of the preceding self-consistent field (SCF). Thus these methods are highly suitable for large-scale computational chemistry applications. Since there are only three thresholds involved that have been given conservative default values, the methods can be confidentially used in a “black-box” fashion in the same way as their canonical counterparts.