Implementation of the CCSD(T)-F12 method using cusp conditions
Abstract
The explicitly-correlated coupled-cluster singles and doubles with perturbative triples method (CCSD(T)-F12) is implemented using the cusp conditions. Numerical tests for a set of 16 molecules have shown agreement of correlation energies within 1 mEh between the cusp-condition and fully-optimized CCSD(T)-F12 methods. Benchmark calculations on 13 chemical reactions with the cusp-condition CCSD(T)-F12 method reproduce experimental enthalpies within 2 kJ mol−1. It is also shown that regular unitary-invariant ansatz cannot exactly satisfy singlet and triplet cusp conditions in open-shell situations. We present an extended ansatz which can handle both conditions exactly.
- This article is part of the themed collection: Explicit-r12 correlation methods and local correlation methods