Efficient Method for Calculating Effective Core Potential Integrals

Simon C. McKenzie, Evgeny Epifanovsky, Giuseppe M.J. Barca, Andrew T.B. Gilbert, Peter M.W. Gill*

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    Abstract

    Effective core potential (ECP) integrals are among the most difficult one-electron integrals to calculate due to the projection operators. The radial part of these operators may include r0, r-1, and r-2 terms. For the r0 terms, we exploit a simple analytic expression for the fundamental projected integral to derive new recurrence relations and upper bounds for ECP integrals. For the r-1 and r-2 terms, we present a reconstruction method that replaces these terms by a sum of r0 terms and show that the resulting errors are chemically insignificant for a range of molecular properties. The new algorithm is available in Q-Chem 5.0 and is significantly faster than the ECP implementations in Q-Chem 4.4, GAMESS (US) and Dalton 2016.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)3066-3075
    Number of pages10
    JournalJournal of Physical Chemistry A
    Volume122
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 22 Mar 2018

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