Extension of the CC(;) Formalism to the Electron Attachment and Ionization Potential Equation-of-Motion Coupled-Cluster Frameworks
arXiv:2506.16320 · doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2025.142371
Abstract
We combine the electron attachment (EA) and ionization potential (IP) equation-of-motion (EOM) coupled-cluster (CC) approaches with the CC(;) formalism. The resulting methodologies are used to describe the electronic states of several open-shell molecules, with the goal of approximating high-level EA/IP-EOMCC energetics corresponding to a full treatment of 3-particle-2-hole (3-2) and 3-hole-2-particle (3-2) excitations on top of CC with singles and doubles (CCSD). We show that the active-orbital-based EA/IP-EOMCC CC(;) approaches, abbreviated as EA/IP-CC(t;3), achieve sub-millihartree accuracies relative to the parent EA-EOMCCSD(3-2)/IP-EOMCCSD(3-2) data using reduced computational effort, while improving upon their completely renormalized EA/IP-CR-EOMCC(2,3) counterparts.
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