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Benchmarking ionization potentials from pCCD tailored coupled cluster models
The ionization potential (IP) is an important parameter providing essential
insights into the reactivity of chemical systems. IPs are also crucial for
designing, optimizing, and understanding the functionality of modern
technological devices. We recently showed that limiting the CC ansatz to the
seniority-zero sector proves insufficient in predicting reliable and accurate
ionization potentials within an IP equation-of-motion coupled-cluster
formalism. Specifically, the absence of dynamic correlation in the
seniority-zero pair coupled cluster doubles (pCCD) model led to unacceptably
significant errors of approximately 1.5 eV. In this work, we aim to explore the
impact of dynamical correlation and the choice of the molecular orbital basis
(canonical vs. localized) in CC-type methods targeting 201 ionized states in 41
molecules. We focus on pCCD-based approaches as well as the conventional
IP-EOM-CCD and IP-EOM-CCSD. Their performance is compared to the CCSDT
equivalent and experimental reference data. Our statistical analysis reveals
that all investigated frozen-pair coupled cluster methods exhibit similar
performance, with differences in errors typically within chemical accuracy (1
kcal/mol or 0.05 eV). Notably, the effect of the molecular orbital basis, such
as canonical Hartree-Fock or natural pCCD-optimized orbitals, on the IPs is
marginal if dynamical correlation is accounted for. Our study suggests that
triple excitations are crucial in achieving chemical accuracy in IPs when
modeling electron detachment processes with pCCD-based methods.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Benchmarking ionization potentials from the simple pCCD model
The electron-detachment energy is measured by its ionization potential (IP).
As a result, it is a fundamental observable and important molecular electronic
signature in photoelectron spectroscopy. A precise theoretical prediction of
electron-detachment energies or ionization potentials is essential for organic
optoelectronic systems like transistors, solar cells, or light-emitting diodes.
In this work, we benchmark the performance of the recently presented IP variant
of the equation-of-motion pair coupled cluster doubles (IP-EOM-pCCD) model to
determine IPs. Specifically, the predicted ionization energies are compared to
experimental results and higher-order coupled cluster theories based on
statistically assessing 201 electron-detached states of 41 organic molecules
for three different molecular orbital basis sets and two sets of particle-hole
operators. While IP-EOM-pCCD features a reasonable spread and skewness of
ionization energies, its mean error and standard deviation deviate up to 1.5 eV
from reference data. Our study, thus, highlights the importance of dynamical
correlation to reliably predict IPs from a pCCD reference function in small
organic molecules.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure