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Accurate virial coefficients of gaseous krypton from state-of-the-art ab initio potential and polarizability of the krypton dimer 

Song, Bo; Waldrop, Jonathan M.; Wang, Xiaopo; Patkowski, Konrad; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4468-207X (2020-06-25)
We have developed a new krypton-krypton interaction-induced isotropic dipole polarizability curve based on high-level ab initio methods. The determination was carried out using the coupled-cluster singles and doubles plus ...

Assessment of transition operator reference states in electron propagator calculations 

Flores-Moreno, Roberto; Zakrzewski, V. G.; Ortiz, J.V. (2021-01-26)
The transition operator method combined with second-order, self-energy corrections to the electron propagator TOEP2 may be used to calculate valence and core-electron binding energies. This method is tested on a set of ...

Assignment of photoelectron spectra of halide–water clusters: Contrasting patterns of delocalization in Dyson orbitals 

Dolgounitcheva, O.; Zakrzewski, V. G.; Ortiz, J. V.; Ortiz, Joseph V. (2020-01-16)
Ab initio electron propagator calculations in various self-energy approximations provide accurate assignments of peaks observed in the photoelectron spectra of complexes that comprise a fluoride or chloride anion and two ...

Basis set converged weak interaction energies from conventional and explicitly correlated coupled-cluster approach 

Patkowski, Konrad (2020-01-16)
Interaction energies for seven weakly bound dimers involving helium, argon, water, and methane are computed using large correlation-consistent basis sets augmented with bond functions. The estimates of the coupled-cluster ...

Cluster perturbation theory. I. Theoretical foundation for a coupled cluster target state and ground-state energies 

Pawlowski, Filip; Olsen, Jeppe; Jorgensen, Poul; 0000-0002-5928-2140 (2020-05-20)
We introduce a new class of perturbation models-the cluster perturbation (CP) models-where the major drawbacks of Moller-Plesset perturbation theory and coupled cluster perturbation theory have been eliminated. In CP theory, ...

Cluster perturbation theory. II. Excitation energies for a coupled cluster target state 

Pawlowski, Filip; Olsen, Jeppe; Jorgensen, Poul; 0000-0002-5928-2140 (2020-05-07)
In cluster perturbation (CP) theory, we consider a target excitation space relative to a Hartree-Fock state and partition the target excitation space into a parent excitation space and an auxiliary excitation space. The ...

Cluster perturbation theory. III. Perturbation series for coupled cluster singles and doubles excitation energies 

Baudin, Pablo; Pawlowski, Filip; Bykov, Dmytro; Liakh, Dimitry; Kristensen, Kasper; Olsen, Jeppe; Jorgensen, Poul; 0000-0002-5928-2140 (2020-05-07)
The cluster perturbation series, CPS(D), for coupled cluster singles and doubles excitation energies is considered. It is demonstrated that the second-order model CPS(D-2) is identical to the configuration interaction ...

Cluster perturbation theory. IV. Convergence of cluster perturbation series for energies and molecular properties 

Pawlowski, Filip; Olsen, Jeppe; Jorgensen, Poul; 0000-0002-5928-2140 (2020-05-20)
The theoretical foundation has been developed for establishing whether cluster perturbation (CP) series for the energy, molecular properties, and excitation energies are convergent or divergent and for using a two-state ...

Cluster perturbation theory. V. Theoretical foundation for cluster linear target states 

Pawlowski, Filip; Olsen, Jeppe; Jorgensen, Poul; 0000-0002-5928-2140 (2020-05-20)
Cluster perturbation (CP) theory was developed in Paper I [F. Pawlowski et al., J. Chem. Phys. 150, 134108 (2019)] for a coupled cluster (CC) target state and is extended in this paper to comprehend a cluster linear (CL) ...

Communication: Water activation and splitting by single metal-atom anions 

Liu, Gaoxiang; Miliordos, Evangelos; Ciborowski, Sandra M.; Tschurl, Martin; Boesl, Ulrich; Heiz, Ulrich; Zhang, Xinxing; Xantheas, Sotiris S.; Bowen, Kit; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-7133 (2020-06-25)
We report experimental and computational results pertaining to the activation and splitting of single water molecules by single atomic platinum anions. The anion photoelectron spectra of [Pt(H2O)](-), formed under different ...

Delocalized water and fluoride contributions to Dyson orbitals for electron detachment from the hydrated fluoride anion 

Canuto, Sylvio; Coutinho, Kaline; Cabral, Benedito J. C.; Zakrzewski, V. G.; Ortiz, J.V. (2021-01-26)
The experimental vertical electron detachment energy VEDE of aqueous fluoride, F− H2O , is approximately 9.8 eV, but spectral assignment is complicated by interference between F− 2p and H2O 1b1 orbitals. The electronic ...

Dependence of the multipole moments, static polarizabilities, and static hyperpolarizabilities of the hydrogen molecule on the H-H separation in the ground singlet state 

Miliordos, Evangelos; Hunt, Katharine L. C.; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-7133 (2020-06-25)
In this work, we provide values for the quadrupole moment Theta, the hexadecapole moment Phi, the dipole polarizability alpha, the quadrupole polarizability C, the dipole-octopole polarizability E, the second dipole ...

Direct ΔMBPT(2) method for ionization potentials, electron affinities, and excitation energies using fractional occupation numbers 

Beste, Ariana; Vazquez-Mayagoitia, Alvaro; Ortiz, J. V.; Ortiz, Joseph V. (2020-01-16)
A direct method (D-ΔMBPT(2)) to calculate second-order ionization potentials (IPs), electron affinities (EAs), and excitation energies is developed. The ΔMBPT(2) method is defined as the correlated extension of the ΔHF ...

Double Rydberg anions with solvated ammonium kernels: Electron binding energies and Dyson orbitals 

Diaz-Tinoco, Manuel; Ortiz, J.V. (2020-03-10)
Ab initio electron-propagator calculations on the electron detachment energies and associated Dyson orbitals of NnH3n+1- for n = 1-5 confirm the assignment of low-energy peaks in anion photoelectron spectra to double Rydberg ...

Efficient evaluation of analytic Fukui functions 

Flores-Moreno, Roberto; Melin, Junia; Ortiz, J.V.; Merino, Gabriel (2021-01-26)
An efficient method for the analytic evaluation of Fukui functions is proposed. Working equations are derived and numerical results are used to validate the method on medium size set of molecules. In addition to the ...

Electron binding energies and Dyson orbitals of Al(5)O(m)(-) (m=3,4,5) and Al(5)O(5)H(2)(-) 

Guevara-Garcia, Alfredo; Martinez, Ana; Ortiz, J.V. (2021-01-26)
Photoelectron spectra of Al5Om − m=3–5 and of the anion produced by the dissociative adsorption of a water molecule by Al5O4 − are interpreted with density-functional geometry optimizations and electron-propagator ...

Electron propagator and coupled-cluster calculations on the photoelectron spectra of thiouracil and dithiouracil anions 

Dolgounitcheava, O.; Zakrzewski, V. G.; Ortiz, J. V. (2021-01-26)
Electron affinities, vertical electron detachment energies, and isomerization energies of 4-thiouracil, 2-thiouracil, and 2,4-dithiouracil and their valence anions have been calculated with ab initio electron propagator ...

Electron propagator calculations on C-60 and C-70 photoelectron spectra 

Zakrzewski, V. G.; Dolgounitcheva, O.; Ortiz, J.V. (2021-01-26)
Vertical ionization energies of C60 and C70 fullerenes are calculated with semidirect implementations of electron propagator methods and a triple- plus polarization basis set. These predictions are in close agreement ...

Eukaryotic N-Glycosylation Occurs via the Membrane-anchored C-terminal Domain of the Stt3p Subunit of Oligosaccharyltransferase 

Huang, Chengdong; Bhaskaran, Rajagopalan; Mohanty, Smita (2020-07-24)
N-Glycosylation is an essential and highly conserved protein modification. In eukaryotes, it is catalyzed by a multisubunit membrane-associated enzyme, oligosaccharyltransferase (OT). We report the high resolution ...