Determination of molecular vibrational state energies using the ab initio semiclassical initial value representation: application to formaldehyde |
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Authors: | Wong Stephanie Y Y Benoit David M Lewerenz Marius Brown Alex Roy Pierre-Nicholas |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G2, Canada. |
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Abstract: | We have demonstrated the use of ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) trajectories to compute the vibrational energy levels of molecular systems in the context of the semiclassical initial value representation (SC-IVR). A relatively low level of electronic structure theory (HF/3-21G) was used in this proof-of-principle study. Formaldehyde was used as a test case for the determination of accurate excited vibrational states. The AIMD-SC-IVR vibrational energies have been compared to those from curvilinear and rectilinear vibrational self-consistent field/vibrational configuration interaction with perturbation selected interactions-second-order perturbation theory (VSCF/VCIPSI-PT2) and correlation-corrected vibrational self-consistent field (cc-VSCF) methods. The survival amplitudes were obtained from selecting different reference wavefunctions using only a single set of molecular dynamics trajectories. We conclude that our approach is a further step in making the SC-IVR method a practical tool for first-principles quantum dynamics simulations. |
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