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Second harmonic generation second hyperpolarizability of water calculated using the combined coupled cluster
Jacob Kongsted1, Anders Osted, Kurt V Mikkelsen
1Department of Chemistry, HC Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Ø, Denmark. kongsted@theory.ki.ku.dk
Abstract:
In this article we report the first calculations of second harmonic generation second hyperpolarizability of liquid water using coupled cluster/molecular mechanics (CC/MM) methods or coupled cluster/dielectric continuum (CC/DC) methods. The latter approach treats the solvent as an isotropic homogeneous fluid while the former accounts for the discrete nature of the solvent molecules. The CC/MM approach may include or exclude polarization effects explicitly. Alternatively, polarization effects may be included using perturbation theory. The CC descriptions implemented are the coupled cluster second-order approximate singles and doubles (CC2) and coupled cluster singles and doubles models. The second harmonic generation second hyperpolarizabilities are, depending on the model, obtained using either an analytical implementation of the cubic response function or using an analytical implementation of the quadratic response function combined with the finite field technique. The CC/MM results for the second harmonic generation second hyperpolarizability compare excellently with experimental data while a significant overestimation is found when using the CC/DC model. Particular, the cavity radius in the CC/DC calculations have an enormous effects on this fourth-order property.
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