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Area of Science:

  • Computational Chemistry
  • Quantum Chemistry
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Excited states of transition metal complexes are strongly correlated due to near-degenerate d orbitals.
  • Accurate electronic structure calculations require multireference methods.
  • Active space selection in these methods is challenging, often relying on empirical approaches.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate an automated method for active space selection in transition metal systems.
  • To assess the accuracy of the automated method compared to traditional approaches.
  • To investigate the potential for reducing the size of active spaces without sacrificing accuracy.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the Discrete Variational Selection with Approximate Pair Coefficients (DVS-APC) method.
  • Combined Approximate Pair Coefficient (APC) for orbital entropies with Discrete Variational Selection (DVS) for active space quality.
  • Applied DVS-APC to 67 vertical excitations in transition metal diatomics and two larger complexes.

Main Results:

  • DVS-APC generated active spaces yielded NEVPT2 mean absolute errors of 0.18 eV for transition metal diatomics.
  • This accuracy is comparable to organic systems but slightly less than hand-selected spaces (0.14 eV).
  • The method demonstrated an ability to down-sample wave functions, retaining accuracy with smaller active spaces.

Conclusions:

  • The DVS-APC method provides a robust and automated approach to active space selection for excited states of transition metal complexes.
  • The deviation between DVS and hand-selected spaces may indicate bias in manual selection.
  • DVS-APC shows promise for modeling excited states in complex transition metal systems.