Türkmen, Ilyas ORCID: 0000-0002-4007-7366
(2024).
An Incremental Scheme for correlation energies including expansions for occupied and virtual spaces through QM/QM embedding.
PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
Wave function based electron correlation methods are reliable and systematically improvable. However, calculations on large systems are not feasible without the introduction of additional approximations due to the powerful scaling of the related methods, especially with respect to the increasing virtual space. A very successful strategy is to exploit the local nature of the electron correlation. This allows orbital spaces to be compressed, thereby reducing computa- tional requirements. The ordinary incremental scheme is an example for a local method that provides highly accurate correlation energies which is suitable for benchmarking and achieves an accuracy of less than 1 kcal/mol. Although the incremental expansion of the occupied space is common and has been exten- sively discussed in the literature, there has been very little progress towards a local virtual space expansion or a combined occupied and virtual space expansion. This thesis highlights key ideas and features of this endeavor in the context of local virtual spaces including the formulation of paradigms and a concrete implementation of a combined occupied and virtual space expansion in the framework of the incremental scheme with embedding generated vir- tual orbitals. A proof of concept is provided on a small set of organic molecules, water clusters and a water complex which demonstrates that the additional virtual expansion is possible and yields accurate results within chemical accuracy while reducing the computational demands dramatically. Indeed, the presented method scales asymptotically linear. Furthermore it is presented how the already reduced virtual space can be further truncated with approximate natural orbitals which are specifically designed for the needs of the incremental scheme. Besides, a separate formal examination of the CCSD energy of the ordinary incremental scheme is also presented, which demonstrates that the incremental expansion of the occupied space corresponds to an incremental improvement of CCSD amplitude quantities.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-748437 | ||||||||||||
Date: | 2024 | ||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Chemistry > Institute of Theoretical Chemistry | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | Chemistry and allied sciences | ||||||||||||
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Date of oral exam: | 4 March 2024 | ||||||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/74843 |
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