TDMP2 calculation of dynamic multipole polarizabilities and dispersion coefficients of the triplebonded molecules CO, N2, CN−, and NO+

A Comparison of Møller-Plesset and Coupled Cluster Linear Response Theory Methods for the Calculation of Dipole Oscillator Strength Sum Rules and C6 Dispersion Coefficients

Four correlated linear response theory methods - the second order polarization propagator approximation (SOPPA), the second order polarization propagator approximation with coupled cluster singles and doubles amplitudes, SOPPA(CCSD), the CC2 and coupled cluster singles doubles (CCSD) linear response theory - were used to determine the dipole oscillator strength sum rules of the hydrogen halides HX (with X = F, Cl, Br and I) and the C6 dispersion coefficient for all pairs of interacting HX molecules via numerical integration of the Casimir-Polder formula. The dependence of the polarizabilities, their frequency dependence and the C6 coefficients on the level of correlation and the dependence of the C6 coefficients on the two intramolecular bond lengths were studied.

Ab initio calculations of dispersion coefficients for nucleic acid base pairs

The results of ab initio calculations of two- and three-body dispersion coefficients for the four most important nucleic acid bases are reported. The isotropic as well as anisotropic coefficients were found by using the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approach and the aug-cc-pVDZ basis set. Single and double excitation coupled-cluster theory with noniterative treatment of triple excitations [CCSD(T)] was used to find the values of static polarizabilities which were subsequently used to estimate the values of the CCSD(T) dispersion coefficients. A comparison of these estimated CCSD(T) dispersion coefficients with coefficients found by using empirical approaches based on atomic contributions revealed that the latter are not reliable.

New approximations for calculating dispersion coefficients

Improved approaches for finding approximate values of dispersion coefficients are proposed. They are based on scaling the values of time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) dispersion coefficients by factors that use the ratio of the estimated true value and the TDHF value of static dipole polarizabilities. It is shown that for a set of 14 atoms and molecules the average absolute-value deviation of the estimated two-body isotropic dispersion coefficients with respect to the dipole oscillator strength distribution results is smaller than 1.0% for two of our approaches. For three-body isotropic dispersion coefficients the corresponding deviations are smaller than 1.2%. Our approximations work particularly well compared to approximations proposed by other researchers in cases where the TDHF results differ from the reference values by more than 10%.