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Xin Xing1, Xiaoxu Li1,2, Lin Lin1,3,4
1Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Abstract:
The calculation of the MP2 correlation energy for extended systems can be viewed as a multidimensional integral in the thermodynamic limit, and the standard method for evaluating the MP2 energy can be viewed as a trapezoidal quadrature scheme. We demonstrate that the existing analysis neglects certain contributions due to the nonsmoothness of the integrand and may significantly underestimate finite-size errors. We propose a new staggered mesh method, which uses two staggered Monkhorst-Pack meshes for occupied and virtual orbitals, respectively, to compute the MP2 energy. The staggered mesh method circumvents a significant error source in the standard method in which certain quadrature nodes are always placed on points where the integrand is discontinuous. One significant advantage of the proposed method is that there are no tunable parameters, and the additional numerical effort needed can be negligible compared to the standard MP2 calculation. Numerical results indicate that the staggered mesh method can be particularly advantageous for quasi-1D systems as well as quasi-2D and 3D systems with certain symmetries.
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