Multiconfiguration Pair-Density Functional Theory Outperforms Kohn鈥揝ham Density Functional Theory and Multireference Perturbation Theory for Ground-State and Excited-State Charge Transfer

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• 作者：Soumen Ghosh ; Andrew L. Sonnenberger ; Chad E. Hoyer ; Donald G. Truhlar ; Laura Gagliardi
• 刊名：Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：August 11, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：11
• 期：8
• 页码：3643-3649
• 全文大小：273K
• ISSN：1549-9626

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The correct description of charge transfer in ground and excited states is very important for molecular interactions, photochemistry, electrochemistry, and charge transport, but it is very challenging for Kohn鈥揝ham (KS) density functional theory (DFT). KS-DFT exchange-correlation functionals without nonlocal exchange fail to describe both ground- and excited-state charge transfer properly. We have recently proposed a theory called multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory (MC-PDFT), which is based on a combination of multiconfiguration wave function theory with a new type of density functional called an on-top density functional. Here we have used MC-PDFT to study challenging ground- and excited-state charge-transfer processes by using on-top density functionals obtained by translating KS exchange-correlation functionals. For ground-state charge transfer, MC-PDFT performs better than either the PBE exchange-correlation functional or CASPT2 wave function theory. For excited-state charge transfer, MC-PDFT (unlike KS-DFT) shows qualitatively correct behavior at long-range with great improvement in predicted excitation energies.