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A new and efficient implementation of CC3

Chemical Physics 2020-10-29 v2

Abstract

We present a new and efficient implementation of the closed shell coupled cluster singles and doubles with perturbative triples method (CC3) in the electronic structure program eTe^T. Asymptotically, a ground state calculation has an iterative cost of 4nV4nO34n_{\text{V}}^{4}n_{\text{O}}^{3} floating point operations (FLOP), where nVn_{\text{V}} and nOn_{\text{O}} are the number of virtual and occupied orbitals respectively. The Jacobian and transpose Jacobian transformations, required to iteratively solve for excitation energies and transition moments, both require 8nV4nO38n_{\text{V}}^{4}n_{\text{O}}^{3} FLOP. We have also implemented equation of motion (EOM) transition moments for CC3. The EOM transition densities require recalculation of triples amplitudes, as nV3nO3n_{\text{V}}^{3}n_{\text{O}}^{3} tensors are not stored in memory. This results in a noniterative computational cost of 10nV4nO310n_{\text{V}}^{4}n_{\text{O}}^{3} FLOP for the ground state density and 26nV4nO326n_{\text{V}}^{4}n_{\text{O}}^{3} FLOP per state for the transition densities. The code is compared to the CC3 implementations in CFOUR, Dalton and Psi4. We demonstrate the capabilities of our implementation by calculating valence and core excited states of L-proline.

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@article{arxiv.2007.01088,
  title  = {A new and efficient implementation of CC3},
  author = {Alexander C. Paul and Rolf H. Myhre and Henrik Koch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.01088},
  year   = {2020}
}

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33 pages, 2 figures and TOC

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