Utilizing Essential Symmetry Breaking in Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo: Application to the Spin Gaps of the C${}_{36}$ Fullerene and an Iron Porphyrin Model Complex

Abstract

We present three distinct examples where phaseless auxiliary-field Quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) can be reliably performed with a single-determinant trial wavefunction with essential symmetry breaking. We first utilized essential time-reversal symmetry breaking with ph-AFQMC to compute the triplet-singlet energy gap in the TS12 set. We found statistically better performance of ph-AFQMC with complex-restricted orbitals than with spin-unrestricted orbitals. We then showed the utilization of essential spin symmetry breaking when computing the single-triplet gap of a known biradicaloid, C${}_{36}$. ph-AFQMC with spin-unrestricted Hartree-Fock (ph-AFQMC+UHF) fails catastrophically even with spin-projection and predicts no biradicaloid character. With approximate Brueckner orbitals obtained from regularized orbital-optimized second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory ($\kappa$-OOMP2), ph-AFQMC quantitatively captures strong biradicaloid character of C${}_{36}$. Lastly, we applied ph-AFQMC to the computation of the quintet-triplet gap in a model iron porphyrin complex where brute-force methods with a small active space fail to capture the triplet ground state. We show unambiguously that neither triplet nor quintet is strongly correlated using UHF, $\kappa$-OOMP2, and coupled-cluster with singles and doubles (CCSD) performed on UHF and $\kappa$-OOMP2 orbitals. There is no essential symmetry breaking in this problem. By virtue of this, we were able to perform UHF+ph-AFQMC reliably with a cc-pVTZ basis set and predicted a triplet ground state for this model geometry. The largest ph-AFQMC in this work correlated 186 electrons in 956 orbitals. Our work highlights the utility, scalability, and accuracy of ph-AFQMC with a single determinant trial wavefunction with essential symmetry breaking for systems mainly dominated by dynamical correlation with little static correlation.

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