Accurate ab Initio Spin Densities

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• 作者：Katharina Boguslawski ; Konrad H. Marti ; 脰rs Legeza ; Markus Reiher
• 刊名：Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：June 12, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：8
• 期：6
• 页码：1970-1982
• 全文大小：611K
• 年卷期：v.8,no.6(June 12, 2012)
• ISSN：1549-9626

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We present an approach for the calculation of spin density distributions for molecules that require very large active spaces for a qualitatively correct description of their electronic structure. Our approach is based on the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) algorithm to calculate the spin density matrix elements as a basic quantity for the spatially resolved spin density distribution. The spin density matrix elements are directly determined from the second-quantized elementary operators optimized by the DMRG algorithm. As an analytic convergence criterion for the spin density distribution, we employ our recently developed sampling-reconstruction scheme [J. Chem. Phys.2011, 134, 224101] to build an accurate complete-active-space configuration-interaction (CASCI) wave function from the optimized matrix product states. The spin density matrix elements can then also be determined as an expectation value employing the reconstructed wave function expansion. Furthermore, the explicit reconstruction of a CASCI-type wave function provides insight into chemically interesting features of the molecule under study such as the distribution of 伪 and 尾 electrons in terms of Slater determinants, CI coefficients, and natural orbitals. The methodology is applied to an iron nitrosyl complex which we have identified as a challenging system for standard approaches [J. Chem. Theory Comput.2011, 7, 2740].