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MP2-Based Correction Scheme to Approach the Limit of a Complete Pair Natural Orbitals Space in DLPNO-CCSD(T) Calculations

The domain-based local pair natural orbital (PNO) coupled-cluster DLPNO-CCSD­(T) method has been proven to provide accurate single-point energies at a fraction of the cost of canonical CCSD­(T) calculations. However, the desired “chemical accuracy” can only be obtained with a large PNO space and ext...

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Published in:Journal of chemical theory and computation 2023-07, Vol.19 (13), p.4023-4032
Main Authors: Pogrebetsky, James, Siklitskaya, Alexandra, Kubas, Adam
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Language:English
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Summary:The domain-based local pair natural orbital (PNO) coupled-cluster DLPNO-CCSD­(T) method has been proven to provide accurate single-point energies at a fraction of the cost of canonical CCSD­(T) calculations. However, the desired “chemical accuracy” can only be obtained with a large PNO space and extended basis set. We present a simple yet accurate and efficient correction scheme based on a perturbative approach. Here, in addition to DLPNO-CCSD­(T) energy, one calculates DLPNO-MP2 correlation energy with the same settings as in the preceding coupled-cluster calculation. In the next step, the canonical MP2 correlation energy is obtained in the same orbital basis. This can be efficiently performed for essentially all molecule sizes accessible with the DLPNO-CCSD­(T) method. By taking the difference between the canonical MP2 and DLPNO-MP2 energies, we obtain a correction term that can be added to the DLPNO-CCSD­(T) correlation energy. This way, one can obtain the total correlation energy close to the limit of the complete PNO space (cPNO). The presented approach allows us to significantly increase the accuracy of the DLPNO-CCSD­(T) method for both closed- and open-shell systems. The latter are known to be especially challenging for locally correlated methods. Unlike the previously developed PNO extrapolation procedure by Altun, Neese, and Bistoni ( J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2020, 16, 6142−6149 ), this strategy allows us to get the DLPNO-CCSD­(T) correlation energy at the cPNO limit in a cost-efficient way, resulting in a minimal overall increase in calculation time as compared to the uncorrected method.
ISSN:1549-9618
1549-9626
DOI:10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00444