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Computation of Atmospheric Concentrations of Molecular Clusters from ab initio Thermochemistry
Published on: April 8, 2020
Formulation and implementation of direct algorithm for the symmetry-adapted cluster and symmetry-adapted
Ryoichi Fukuda1, Hiroshi Nakatsuji
1Quantum Chemistry Research Institute, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8245, Japan. fukuda@qcri.or.jp
Abstract:
We present a new computational algorithm, called direct algorithm, for the symmetry-adapted cluster (SAC) and SAC-configuration interaction (SAC-CI) methodology for the ground, excited, ionized, and electron-attached states. The perturbation-selection technique and the molecular orbital index based direct sigma-vector algorithm were combined efficiently with the use of the sparse nature of the matrices involved. The formal computational cost was reduced to O(N(2)xM) for a system with N-active orbitals and M-selected excitation operators. The new direct SAC-CI program has been applied to several small molecules and free-base porphin and has been shown to be more efficient than the conventional nondirect SAC-CI program for almost all cases. Particularly, the acceleration was significant for large dimensional computations. The direct SAC-CI algorithm has achieved an improvement in both accuracy and efficiency. It would open a new possibility in the SAC/SAC-CI methodology for studying various kinds of ground, excited, and ionized states of molecules.
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