Comprehensive Analysis of the Neglect of Diatomic Differential Overlap Approximation

Abstract

Many modern semiempirical molecular orbital models are built on the neglect of diatomic differential overlap (NDDO) approximation. An in-depth understanding of this approximation is therefore indispensable to rationalize the success of these semiempirical molecular orbital models and to develop further improvements on them. The NDDO approximation provides a recipe to approximate electron-electron repulsion integrals (ERIs) in a symmetrically orthogonalized basis based on a far smaller number of ERIs in a locally orthogonalized basis. We first analyze the NDDO approximation by comparing ERIs in both bases for a selection of molecules and for a selection of basis sets. We find that the errors in Hartree-Fock and second-order Moller-Plesset perturbation theory energies grow roughly linearly with the number of basis functions. We then examine different approaches to correct for the errors caused by the NDDO approximation and propose a strategy to directly correct for them in the two-electron matrices that enter the Fock operator.

arXiv comment35 pages, 10 figures

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