The MP2-F12 method in the Turbomole program package
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Multiscale Sampling of a Heterogeneous Water/Metal Catalyst Interface using Density Functional Theory and Force-Field Molecular Dynamics
Published on: April 12, 2019
Rafał A Bachorz1, Florian A Bischoff, Andreas Glöss
1Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Abstract:
A detailed description of the explicitly correlated second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2-F12) method, as implemented in the TURBOMOLE program package, is presented. The TURBOMOLE implementation makes use of density fitting, which greatly reduces the prefactor for integral evaluation. Methods are available for the treatment of ground states of open- and closed-shell species, using unrestricted as well as restricted (open-shell) Hartree-Fock reference determinants. Various methodological choices and approximations are discussed. The performance of the TURBOMOLE implementation is illustrated by example calculations of the molecules leflunomide, prednisone, methotrexate, ethylenedioxytetrafulvalene, and a cluster model for the adsorption of methanol on the zeolite H-ZSM-5. Various basis sets are used, including the correlation-consistent basis sets specially optimized for explicitly correlated calculations (cc-pVXZ-F12).
