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Title: R–8 Dispersion Interaction: Derivation and Application to the Effective Fragment Potential Method

Journal Article · · Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory

The anisotropic and isotropic R–8 dispersion contributions (disp8) are derived and implemented within the framework of the effective fragment potential (EFP) method formulated with imaginary frequency-dependent Cartesian polarizability tensors distributed at the centroids of the localized molecular orbitals (LMOs). Two forms of damping functions, intermolecular overlap-based and Tang–Toennies, are extended for disp8. To obtain LMO polarizability tensors centered at LMO centroids, an origin-shifting transformation is derived and implemented for the dipole–octopole polarizability tensor and the quadrupole–quadrupole polarizability tensor. The analytic gradient is derived and implemented for the isotropic disp8 contribution. Relative to the previously implemented empirical EFP disp8 energy, the isotropic disp8 component of the interaction energy improves the overall agreement of the EFP dispersion energies with the symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) benchmarks, reducing the mean absolute errors (MAEs) and mean absolute percentage errors for most of the databases examined in this work. Further, while the anisotropic disp8 can further enhance the accuracy of the EFP dispersion energy and yield smaller MAEs, significantly overbound dispersion energies are predicted by the anisotropic disp8 when the maximum element in the intermolecular overlap matrix is greater than 0.1, possibly due to the breakdown of the approximations made in the EFP dispersion derivation at a short range. For potential energy scan databases, the newly developed EFP dispersion model with isotropic disp8 yields the overall correct curvature and good agreement with SAPT benchmarks around equilibrium and longer but overestimates the dispersion interactions at a short range. While the overlap-based dispersion-damping functions produce better MAEs than Tang–Toennies damping functions, further improvement is needed to better screen the large attractive dispersion energies at a short range (overlap >0.1).

Research Organization:
Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11358
OSTI ID:
2281351
Report Number(s):
IS-J-11,223
Journal Information:
Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory, Vol. 128, Issue 1; ISSN 1089-5639
Publisher:
American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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