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Ortiz Quantum Chemistry Group - Electron Propagator Calculations in Gaussian 16 - Example 1
Ortiz Quantum Chemistry Group - Electron Propagator Calculations in Gaussian 16 - Example 1
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Example 1: P3+ / 6-311G(2df,2pd) calculations of
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vertical ionization potentials (VIPs) of water
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Propagator Input to G16 program:
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#p ept(p3,ReadOrbitals) 6-311G(2df,2pd)
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Title: P3+ calculations for VIPs of water.
0 1
H
O 1 0.957
H 2 0.957 1 104.2
2 4
The option ept(p3,ReadOrbitals) invokes the EPT calculations in the renormalized partial third-order
(P3+) approximation and requests the program to read an additional line (the last line of the input)
containing orbitals for which electron binding energies will be calculated. In this case, these are orbitals 2
through 4, where numbering starts with the first correlated orbital. As the standard frozen-core
approximation is a default in Gaussian calculations (in this case one lowest-energy occupied orbital is
frozen), the line 2 4 requests a calculation of vertical electron detachment energies (VEDEs) for HOMO-
2, HOMO-1, and HOMO orbitals. The resulting output gives these VEDEs as:
Note that besides the P3+ number, results are also reported for lower-order approximations, namely
Koopmans's theorem (which is simply equal to the orbital energy), diagonal second-order method (D2)
and partial third-order (P3) method.
The last column contains the pole strength (PS) values. PS is equal to the norm of a Dyson orbital
corresponding to a given VEDE and is calculated from a residue at this VEDE. PS values below 0.85
indicate that the diagonal self-energy approximations (i.e., D2, D3, OVGF, P3, P3+) are unreliable!!!
Sign convention: Numbers reported above are VEDEs defined as the total energy of the N-electron
system minus the total energy of the (N-1)-electron system. A negative value of VEDE therefore means
that the N-electron system is bound. VIP is a negative of VEDE and hence all above examples
correspond to an endoenergetic process of electron removal.
Note that instead of the 6-311G(2df,2pd) basis, we could have used another triple-zeta quality basis
containing polarization functions, e.g., the correlation-consistent cc-pVTZ basis. These bases ensure
results close to the basis-set limit for VIPs [Díaz-Tinoco2016].