Active Spaces and Non-Orthogonal Configuration Interaction Approaches for Investigating Molecules on Metal Surfaces
Abstract
We test a set of multiconfigurational wavefunction approaches for calculating the ground state electron population for a two-site Anderson model representing a molecule on a metal surface. In particular, we compare (i) a Hartree Fock like wavefunction where frontier orbitals are allowed to be nonorthogonal versus (ii) a fully non-orthogonal configuration interaction wavefunction based on constrained Hartree-Fock states. We test both the strong and weak metal-molecule hybridization () limits as well as the strong and weak electron-electron repulsion (U) limits. We obtain accurate results as compared with exact numerical renormalization group (NRG) theory, recovering charge transfer states where appropriate. The current framework should open a path to run molecular non-adiabatic dynamics on metal surfaces.
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@article{arxiv.2207.08727,
title = {Active Spaces and Non-Orthogonal Configuration Interaction Approaches for Investigating Molecules on Metal Surfaces},
author = {Junhan Chen and Wenjie Dou and Joseph Subotnik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08727},
year = {2022}
}