Fast Computation of Molecular Random Phase Approximation Correlation Energies using Resolution of the Identity and Imaginary Frequency Integration
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-21-2010
Abstract
The random phase approximation (RPA) is an increasingly popular post-Kohn-Sham correlation method, but its high computational cost has limited molecular applications to systems with few atoms. Here we present an efficient implementation of RPA correlation energies based on a combination of resolution of the identity (RI) and imaginary frequency integration techniques. We show that the RI approximation to four-index electron repulsion integrals leads to a variational upper bound to the exact RPA correlation energy if the Coulomb metric is used. Auxiliary basis sets optimized for second-order Møller-Plesset (MP2) calculations are well suitable for RPA, as is demonstrated for the HEAT [A. Tajti, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 11599 (2004)] and MOLEKEL [F. Weigend, Chem. Phys. Lett. 294, 143 (1998)] benchmark sets. Using imaginary frequency integration rather than diagonalization to compute the matrix square root necessary for RPA, evaluation of the RPA correlation energy requires O (N4 log N) operations and O (N3) storage only; the price for this dramatic improvement over existing algorithms is a numerical quadrature. We propose a numerical integration scheme that is exact in the two-orbital case and converges exponentially with the number of grid points. For most systems, 30-40 grid points yield μH accuracy in triple zeta basis sets, but much larger grids are necessary for small gap systems. The lowest-order approximation to the present method is a post-Kohn-Sham frequency-domain version of opposite-spin Laplace-transform RI-MP2 [J. Jung, Phys. Rev. B 70, 205107 (2004)]. Timings for polyacenes with up to 30 atoms show speed-ups of two orders of magnitude over previous implementations. The present approach makes it possible to routinely compute RPA correlation energies of systems well beyond 100 atoms, as is demonstrated for the octapeptide angiotensin II.
DOI
10.1063/1.3442749
Montclair State University Digital Commons Citation
Eshuis, Hendrik; Yarkony, Julian; and Furche, Filipp, "Fast Computation of Molecular Random Phase Approximation Correlation Energies using Resolution of the Identity and Imaginary Frequency Integration" (2010). Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 380.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/chem-biochem-facpubs/380