Analytic Nuclear Gradients for Complete Active Space Linearized Pair-Density Functional Theory
arXiv:2401.12933 · doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00095
Abstract
Accurately modeling photochemical reactions is difficult due to the presence of conical intersections and locally avoided crossings as well as the inherently multiconfigurational character of excited states. As such, one needs a multi-state method that incorporates state interaction in order to accurately model the potential energy surface at all nuclear coordinates. The recently developed linearized pair-density functional theory (L-PDFT) is a multi-state extension of multiconfiguration PDFT, and it has been shown to be a cost-effective post-MCSCF method (as compared to more traditional and expensive multireference many-body perturbation methods or multireference configuration interaction methods) that can accurately model potential energy surfaces in regions of strong nuclear-electronic coupling in addition to accurately predicting Franck-Condon vertical excitations. In this paper, we report the derivation of analytic gradients for L-PDFT and their implementation in the PySCF-forge software, and we illustrate the utility of these gradients for predicting ground- and excited-state equilibrium geometries and adiabatic excitation energies for formaldehyde, s-trans-butadiene, phenol, and cytosine.
arXiv comment24 pages, 3 figures
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