Abstract
Analytical nuclear gradients for fully internally contracted complete active space second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2) are reported. This implementation has been realized by an automated code generator that can handle spin-free formulas for the CASPT2 energy and its derivatives with respect to variations of molecular orbitals and reference coefficients. The underlying complete active space self-consistent field and the so-called Z-vector equations are solved using density fitting. The implementation has been applied to the vertical and adiabatic ionization potentials of the porphin molecule to illustrate its capability.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 051103 |
Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
Volume | 142 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 7 2015 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry