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Relativistic Complete Active Space Self-Consistent-Field Method with a Hierarchy of Exact Two-Component Hamiltonians
Xubo Wang1, Sen Wang1, Yixuan Wu1
1Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2625, United States.
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The development of a novel exact two-component (X2C) scheme with the inclusion of the picture-change correction for the fluctuation potential, the "X2Ccorr" scheme, is reported, hereby establishing a hierarchy of X2C schemes with systematic improvement for the treatment of relativistic two-electron contributions. Using benchmark X2C complete active space self-consistent-field (CASSCF) calculations for zero-field splittings in chalcogen diatomics, the contributions of two-electron spin-orbit coupling, electron spin-spin coupling, and quantum electrodynamics are carefully analyzed. The capability of the new Cholesky decomposition-based implementation for the relativistic two-component CASSCF method using super-configuration-interaction algorithms is further demonstrated with calculations for the low-lying electronic states of neodymium aqua-ions with up to the second coordination shells.
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