Double Hybrid Functionals and the Π-System Bond Length Alternation Challenge: Rivaling Accuracy of Post-HF Methods

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Título: Double Hybrid Functionals and the Π-System Bond Length Alternation Challenge: Rivaling Accuracy of Post-HF Methods
Autor/es: Wykes, Michael | Su, Neil Qiang | Xu, Xin | Adamo, Carlo | Sancho-Garcia, Juan-Carlos
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: Química Cuántica
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Química Física
Palabras clave: Double hybrid functionals | Bond length alternations | Accuracy | Π-system
Área/s de conocimiento: Química Física
Fecha de publicación: 2015
Editor: American Chemical Society
Cita bibliográfica: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 2015, 11(2): 832-838. doi:10.1021/ct500986b
Resumen: Predicting accurate bond length alternations (BLAs) in long conjugated oligomers has been a significant challenge for electronic-structure methods for many decades, made particularly important by the close relationships between BLA and the rich optoelectronic properties of π-delocalized systems. Here, we test the accuracy of recently developed, and increasingly popular, double hybrid (DH) functionals, positioned at the top of Jacobs Ladder of DFT methods of increasing sophistication, computational cost, and accuracy, due to incorporation of MP2 correlation energy. Our test systems comprise oligomeric series of polyacetylene, polymethineimine, and polysilaacetylene up to six units long. MP2 calculations reveal a pronounced shift in BLAs between the 6-31G(d) basis set used in many studies of BLA to date and the larger cc-pVTZ basis set, but only modest shifts between cc-pVTZ and aug-cc-pVQZ results. We hence perform new reference CCSD(T)/cc-pVTZ calculations for all three series of oligomers against which we assess the performance of several families of DH functionals based on BLYP, PBE, and TPSS, along with lower-rung relatives including global- and range-separated hybrids. Our results show that DH functionals systematically improve the accuracy of BLAs relative to single hybrid functionals. xDH-PBE0 (N4 scaling using SOS-MP2) emerges as a DH functional rivaling the BLA accuracy of SCS-MP2 (N5 scaling), which was found to offer the best compromise between computational cost and accuracy the last time the BLA accuracy of DFT- and wave function-based methods was systematically investigated. Interestingly, xDH-PBE0 (XYG3), which differs to other DHs in that its MP2 term uses PBE0 (B3LYP) orbitals that are not self-consistent with the DH functional, is an outlier of trends of decreasing average BLA errors with increasing fractions of MP2 correlation and HF exchange.
Patrocinador/es: The work at IMDEA was supported by the Campus of International Excellence (CEI) UAM+CSIC. M.W. thanks the European Commission for his Marie Curie Fellowship (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF-331795). J.-C.S.-G. thanks the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain and the European Regional Development Fund through project CTQ2011-27253.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/58091
ISSN: 1549-9618 (Print) | 1549-9626 (Online)
DOI: 10.1021/ct500986b
Idioma: eng
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Derechos: © 2014 American Chemical Society
Revisión científica: si
Versión del editor: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ct500986b
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