Laplace-transformed multi-reference second-order perturbation theories in the atomic and active molecular orbital basis
arXiv:1703.07204 · doi:10.1063/1.4984591
Abstract
In the present article, we show how to formulate the partially contracted n-electron valence second order perturbation theory (NEVPT2) energies in the atomic and active molecular orbital basis by employing the Laplace transformation of orbital-energy denominators (OED). As atomic-orbital (AO) basis functions are inherently localized and the number of active orbitals is comparatively small, our formulation is particularly suited for a linearly-scaling NEVPT2 implementation. Some of the NEVPT2 energy contributions can be formulated completely in the AO basis as single-reference second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory and benefit from sparse active-pseudo density matrices - particularly if the active molecular orbitals are localized only in parts of a molecule. Furthermore, we show that for multi-reference perturbation theories it is particularly challenging to find optimal parameters of the numerical Laplace transformation as the fit range may vary among the 8 different OEDs by many orders of magnitude. Selecting the number of quadrature points for each OED separately according to an accuracy-based criterion allows us to control the errors in the NEVPT2 energies reliably.
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