A Mountaineering Strategy to Excited States: Revising Reference Values with EOM-CC4

Abstract

In the framework of the computational determination of highly-accurate vertical excitation energies in small organic compounds, we explore the possibilities offered by the equation-of-motion formalism relying on the approximate fourth-order coupled-cluster (CC) method, CC4. We demonstrate, using an extended set of more than 200 reference values based on CC including up to quadruples excitations (CCSDTQ), that CC4 is an excellent approximation to CCSDTQ for excited states with a dominant contribution from single excitations with an average deviation as small as $0.003$ eV. We next assess the accuracy of several additive basis set correction schemes, in which vertical excitation energies obtained with a compact basis set and a high-order CC method are corrected with lower-order CC calculations performed in larger basis sets. Such strategies are found to be overall very beneficial, though their accuracy depend significantly on the actual scheme. Finally, CC4 is employed to improve several theoretical best estimates of the QUEST database for molecules containing between four and six (non-hydrogen) atoms, for which previous estimates were computed at the CCSDT level.

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