Explicitly correlated second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory in a Divide-Expand-Consolidate (DEC) context

Yang Min Wang1,a), Christof Hättig2, Simen Reine2, Edward Valeev4 Thomas Kjægaard1, and Kasper Kristensena

1 qLEAP Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, DK-8000 Aarhus
2a Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
3 Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033, N-1315 Blindern, Norway
4 Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA

J. Chem. Phys., 144, 204112 (2016)
(Received 5 February 2016; accepted 8 May 2016, published online 26 May 2016)

We present the DEC-RIMP2-F12 method where we have augmented the Divide Expand-Consolidate resolution-of-the-identity second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory method (DEC-RIMP2) [P. Baudin et al., J. Chem. Phys. 144, 054102 (2016)] with an explicitly correlated (F12) correction. The new method is linear-scaling, massively parallel, and it corrects for the basis set incompleteness error in an efficient manner. In addition, we observe that the F12 contribution decreases the domain error of the DEC-RIMP2 correlation energy by roughly an order of magnitude. An important feature of the DEC scheme is the inherent error control defined by a single parameter, and this feature is also retained for the DEC-RIMP2-F12 method. In this paper we present the working equations for the DEC-RIMP2-F12 method and proof of concept numerical results for a set of test molecules.
(c) 2016 American Institute of Physics. [doi:/10.1063/1.4951696]


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