Analytic Computation of Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectra Using Second-Order Møller-Plesset Perturbation Theory

Abstract

We present the first analytic-derivative-based formulation of vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) atomic axial tensors for second-order Moller-Plesset (MP2) perturbation theory. We compare our implementation to our recently reported finite-difference approach and find close agreement, thus validating the new formulation. The new approach is dramatically less computationally expensive than the numerical-derivative method with an overall computational scaling of $O(N^6)$. In addition, we report the first fully analytic VCD spectrum for (S)-methyloxirane at the MP2 level of theory.

23 pages, 3 tables, 2 figures