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Efficient Excitonic Configuration Interaction for Large-Scale Multichromophoric Systems Using the
Tomislav Piteša1,2, Sebastian Mai2, Leticia González2,3
1Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
|March 10, 2025
Summary
We developed an efficient computational method to calculate electronic excited states in large molecular systems. This approach significantly reduces computational cost and memory, enabling accurate studies of complex chromophore networks.
Area of Science:
- Computational Chemistry
- Quantum Chemistry
- Theoretical Chemistry
Background:
- Calculating electronic excited states in extended multichromophoric systems is computationally demanding.
- Existing methods struggle with the scale and complexity of systems with numerous chromophores.
Purpose of the Study:
- To accelerate the excitonic configuration interaction (ECI) method for large-scale excited state calculations.
- To reduce the computational cost and memory requirements for analyzing extended molecular systems.
Main Methods:
- Incorporated the resolution-of-identity approximation for two-site integrals.
- Introduced an overlap-based prescreening scheme for three-centric exchange integrals.
- Applied these enhancements to the excitonic configuration interaction (ECI) method.
Main Results:
- Achieved significant reductions in computational cost and memory usage.
- Enabled accurate calculations for systems with up to 32 BODIPY chromophores and 100 peri-xanthenoxanthene units.
- Obtained excitation energy errors below 30 meV using time-dependent density functional theory site states.
Conclusions:
- The enhanced ECI method provides an efficient and accurate approach for studying large multichromophoric systems.
- This work facilitates the investigation of complex molecular architectures and their excited-state properties.
- The method is suitable for large-scale electronic structure calculations in chemistry and materials science.
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