Double Electron Attachment and Double Ionization Potential Equation-of-Motion Coupled-Cluster Approaches with Full and Active-Space Treatments of 4-Particle-2-Hole and 4-Hole-2-Particle Excitations and Three-Body Clusters

TL;DR

This paper develops and implements advanced coupled-cluster methods for accurately calculating double electron attachment and ionization potentials, including complex excitations, with efficient full and active-space approaches.

Contribution

The authors introduce efficient full and active-space EOMCC methods for double electron attachment and ionization potentials with complex excitations, achieving high accuracy at reduced costs.

Findings

Active-space approaches recover high accuracy with less computational effort.

Methods successfully applied to molecules like methylene and trimethylenemethane.

Accurate predictions of ionization potentials for 23 atoms and molecules.

Abstract

The double electron attachment (DEA) and double ionization potential (DIP) equation-of-motion coupled-cluster (EOMCC) methods including up to 4-particle-2-hole (4$p$-2$h$) and 4-hole-2-particle (4$h$-2$p$) excitations on top of coupled-cluster singles, doubles, and triples (CCSDT), denoted DEA-EOMCCSDT(4$p$-2$h$) and DIP-EOMCCSDT(4$h$-2$p$), have been efficiently implemented in full and active-space forms. The resulting methods are applied to determine the ground and low-lying excited states of methylene, the singlet-triplet gap of trimethylenemethane, and the lowest singlet and triplet DIPs of 23 atoms and molecules. In all cases considered, the active-space DEA/DIP-EOMCC approaches recover the highly accurate parent DEA-EOMCCSDT(4$p$-2$h$)/DIP-EOMCCSDT(4$h$-2$p$) data at small fractions of the computational costs.