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Ning Zhang1, Wenjian Liu2, Mark R Hoffmann3
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Abstract:
The efficiency of the recently proposed iCIPT2 [iterative configuration interaction (iCI) with selection and second-order perturbation theory (PT2); J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2020, 16, 2296] for strongly correlated electrons is further enhanced (by up to 20×) by using (1) a new ranking criterion for configuration selection, (2) a new particle-hole algorithm for Hamiltonian construction over randomly selected configuration state functions (CSF), and (3) a new data structure for the quick sorting of the variational and first-order interaction spaces. Meanwhile, the memory requirement is also significantly reduced. As a result, this improved implementation of iCIPT2 can handle 1 order of magnitude more CSFs than the previous version, as revealed by taking the chromium dimer and an iron-sulfur cluster, [Fe2S2(SCH3)]42-, as examples.
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