Relativistic fock space coupled cluster method for many-electron systems: Non-perturbative account for connected triple excitations

Alexander V. Oleynichenko, Andréi Zaitsevskii, Leonid V. Skripnikov, Ephraim Eliav

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Abstract

The Fock space relativistic coupled cluster method (FS-RCC) is one of the most promising tools of electronic structure modeling for atomic and molecular systems containing heavy nuclei. Until recently, capabilities of the FS-RCC method were severely restricted by the fact that only single and double excitations in the exponential parametrization of the wave operator were considered. We report the design and the first computer implementation of FS-RCC schemes with full and simplified non-perturbative account for triple excitations in the cluster operator. Numerical stability of the new computational scheme and thus its applicability to a wide variety of molecular electronic states is ensured using the dynamic shift technique combined with the extrapolation to zero-shift limit. Pilot applications to atomic (Tl, Pb) and molecular (TlH) systems reported in the paper indicate that the breakthrough in accuracy and predictive power of the electronic structure calculations for heavy-element compounds can be achieved. Moreover, the described approach can provide a firm basis for high-precision modeling of heavy molecular systems with several open shells, including actinide compounds.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1101
JournalSymmetry
Volume12
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2020

Keywords

  • Excited states
  • Heavy-element compounds
  • High-precision electronic structure modeling
  • Relativistic coupled cluster method

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)
  • Chemistry (miscellaneous)
  • General Mathematics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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