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  • strongly correlated Barriers to rotation from parametric two electron reduced density matrix methods in application to the isomerization of diazene
    Journal of Chemical Physics, 2012
    Co-Authors: Andrew M Sand, Christine A Schwerdtfeger, David A Mazziotti
    Abstract:

    Recently, parameterization of the two-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM) has made possible the determination of electronic energies with greater accuracy and lower cost than traditional electron-pair theories including coupled cluster with single and double excitations [D. A. Mazziotti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253002 (2008)]. We examine the method's performance for strongly correlated Barriers to rotation; in particular, we study two distinct pathways in the isomerization of diazene (N2H2) from cis to trans: (i) a strongly correlated Rotational pathway and (ii) a moderately correlated inversion pathway. While single reference wavefunction methods predict that the Rotational Barrier is higher than the inversional Barrier, the parametric 2-RDM method predicts that the Rotational Barrier is lower than the inversional Barrier by 3.1 kcal/mol in the extrapolated basis set limit. The parametric 2-RDM results are in agreement with those from multireference methods including multireference perturbation theory ...

  • strongly correlated Barriers to rotation from parametric two electron reduced density matrix methods in application to the isomerization of diazene
    Journal of Chemical Physics, 2012
    Co-Authors: Andrew M Sand, Christine A Schwerdtfeger, David A Mazziotti
    Abstract:

    Recently, parameterization of the two-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM) has made possible the determination of electronic energies with greater accuracy and lower cost than traditional electron-pair theories including coupled cluster with single and double excitations [D. A. Mazziotti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253002 (2008)]. We examine the method's performance for strongly correlated Barriers to rotation; in particular, we study two distinct pathways in the isomerization of diazene (N2H2) from cis to trans: (i) a strongly correlated Rotational pathway and (ii) a moderately correlated inversion pathway. While single reference wavefunction methods predict that the Rotational Barrier is higher than the inversional Barrier, the parametric 2-RDM method predicts that the Rotational Barrier is lower than the inversional Barrier by 3.1 kcal/mol in the extrapolated basis set limit. The parametric 2-RDM results are in agreement with those from multireference methods including multireference perturbation theory and the solution to the anti-Hermitian contracted Schrodinger equation. We report energies, optimized structures, and natural orbital occupation numbers for three diazene minima and two transition states.

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