Molecular Interactions and Properties with Many-Body Methods
Abstract
The crucial component needed to understand molecular reactions is the potential energy surfaces (PES) that serve to describe the attractions among the atoms and molecules. However, such information is not easy to obtain. In many cases, the most direct approach to obtaining accurate potential surfaces for molecules, and detailed information about their excited states, vibrational spectra, and a wealth of other quantities, is high level ab initio solutions of the Schrodinger equation. However, more so than in most other areas, the ability to provide reliable quantum mechanical results for increasingly large molecules depends critically on improved method development. Whereas supercomputers can enable us to make much larger computations with old methods, the simultaneous development of new methods can increase computational capability by further orders of magnitude. In this regard, many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) and its infinite-order extensions termed coupled-cluster (CC) methods offer a number of attractive features that the more traditional configuration interaction approaches lack. Under AFOSR support, we have established these CC/MBPT theories as being among the most accurate available, and have developed very efficient and generally applicable computer programs to perform CC/MBPT calculations. Also, we have employed these methods for the first time in large-scale ab initio calculations of potential energy surfaces. The successes of our original work in this effort have been substantial (see previous AFOSR reports).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 21, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA247052
Entities
People
- Rodney J. Bartlett
Organizations
- University of Florida