Issue 7, 2019

Algebraic diagrammatic construction for the polarisation propagator in combination with effective fragment potentials

Abstract

The effective fragment potential (EFP) method for the efficient inclusion of solvation effects is combined with the algebraic diagrammatic construction (ADC) scheme for the second- and third-order polarisation propagator. The accuracy of these newly developed EFP-ADC(2) and EFP-ADC(3) methods is tested with respect to supermolecular ADC calculations for a selected set of small solute·solvent complexes. The EFP model for solvation introduces only marginal errors in the excitation energies and oscillator strengths of singlet as well as triplet states, which are strictly localized on the chromophore, significantly below the intrinsic errors of the parent ADC(2) and ADC(3) methods. It is only when delocalization of electron density on the solvent molecules occurs that the error in the excitation energies increases, a well-known behavior of environment models in general. Overall, EFP-ADC schemes prove to be reliable computational approaches to simulate electronic absorption spectra in solution.

Graphical abstract: Algebraic diagrammatic construction for the polarisation propagator in combination with effective fragment potentials

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
19 Oct 2018
Accepted
18 Dec 2018
First published
19 Dec 2018

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019,21, 3683-3694

Algebraic diagrammatic construction for the polarisation propagator in combination with effective fragment potentials

R. Sen, A. Dreuw and S. Faraji, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 3683 DOI: 10.1039/C8CP06527F

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