Issue 1, 2013

Pyrazine excited states revisited using the extended multi-state complete active space second-order perturbation method

Abstract

We demonstrate that the recently developed extended multi-state complete active space second-order perturbation theory (XMS-CASPT2) [Shiozaki et al., J. Chem. Phys., 2011, 135, 081106] provides qualitatively correct potential energy surfaces for low-lying excited singlet states of pyrazine, while the potential energy surfaces of the standard MS-CASPT2 methods are ill-behaved near the crossing point of two reference potential energy surfaces. The XMS-CASPT2 method is based on the extended multi-configuration quasi-degenerate perturbation theory proposed earlier by Granovsky [J. Chem. Phys., 2011, 134, 214113]. We show that the conical intersection at the XMS-CASPT2 level can be described without artifacts if the entire method is invariant with respect to any unitary rotations of the reference functions. The photoabsorption spectra of the 11B3u and 11B2u states of pyrazine are simulated, based on a vibronic-coupling model Hamiltonian. The XMS-CASPT2 spectrum of the 11B3u band is found to be comparable to the one computed by a more expensive multireference configuration interaction (MRCI) method, while the XMS-CASPT2 simulation of the 11B2u band is slightly inferior to the MRCI one.

Graphical abstract: Pyrazine excited states revisited using the extended multi-state complete active space second-order perturbation method

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 Sep 2012
Accepted
23 Oct 2012
First published
25 Oct 2012

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 262-269

Pyrazine excited states revisited using the extended multi-state complete active space second-order perturbation method

T. Shiozaki, C. Woywod and H. Werner, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 262 DOI: 10.1039/C2CP43381H

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