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Performance Analysis and Optimization of Mixed-Reference Spin-Flip Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
Yevhen Horbatenko1, Seunghoon Lee2, Michael Filatov1
1Department of Chemistry , Kyungpook National University , Daegu 41566 , Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
The mixed-reference spin-flip (MRSF) time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) method eliminates the notorious spin contamination of SF-TDDFT, thus enabling identification of states of proper spin-symmetry for automatic geometry optimization and molecular dynamics simulations. Here, we analyze and optimize the MRSF-TDDFT in the calculations of the vertical excitation energies (VEEs) and the singlet-triplet (ST) gaps. The dependence of the obtained VEEs and ST gaps on the intrinsic parameters of the MRSF-TDDFT method is investigated, and prescriptions for the proper use of the method are formulated. For VEEs, MRSF-TDDFT displays similar or better accuracy than SF-TDDFT (ca. 0.5 eV), while considerably outperforming the LR-TDDFT for the ST gaps. As a result, a new functional of STG1X (dubbed here), especially for ST gaps is suggested on the basis of splitting between the components of the atomic multiplets.
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