scholarly journals Time-Dependent Double-Hybrid Density Functionals with Spin-Component and Spin-Opposite Scaling

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4307-4323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Schwabe ◽  
Lars Goerigk
Keyword(s):  
Time Dependent ◽  
Spin Component ◽  
Density Functionals

scholarly journals Time-Dependent Long-Range-Corrected Double-Hybrid Density Functionals with Spin-Component and Spin-Opposite Scaling: A Comprehensive Analysis of Singlet-Singlet and Singlet-Triplet Excitation Energies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Casanova Paez ◽  
Lars Goerigk
Keyword(s):  
Long Range ◽  
Chem Phys ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Spin Component ◽  
Density Functionals ◽  
Robust Methods ◽  
Excitation Energies ◽  
Vertical Excitation ◽  
Perturbative Part ◽  
Benchmark Sets

<div> <div> <div> <p>Following the work on spin-component and spin-opposite scaled (SCS/SOS) global double hybrids for singlet-singlet excitations by Schwabe and Goerigk [J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2017, 13, 4307-4323] and our own works on new long-range corrected (LC) double hybrids for singlet-singlet and singlet-triplet excitations [J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2019, 15, 4735- 4744; J. Chem. Phys. 2020, 153, 064106], we present new LC double hybrids with SCS/SOS that demonstrate further improvement over previously published results and methods. We introduce new unscaled and scaled versions of different global and LC double hybrids based on Becke88 or PBE exchange combined with LYP, PBE or P86 correlation. For singlet-singlet excitations, we cross-validate them on six benchmark sets that cover small to medium-sized chromophores with different excitation types (local valence, Rydberg, and charge transfer). For singlet-triplet excitations, we perform the cross-validation on three different benchmark sets following the same analysis as in our previous work in 2020. In total, 203 unique excitations are analyzed. Our results confirm and extend those of Schwabe and Goerigk regarding the superior performance of SCS and SOS variants compared to their unscaled parents by decreasing mean absolute deviations, root-mean-square deviations or error spans by more than half and bringing absolute mean deviations closer to zero. Our SCS/SOS variants show to be highly efficient and robust for the computation of vertical excitation energies, which even outperform specialized double hybrids that also contain an LC in their perturbative part. In particular, our new SCS/SOS-ωPBEPP86 and SCS/SOS-ωB88PP86 functional are four of the most accurate and robust methods tested in this work and we fully recommend them for future applications. However, if the relevant SCS and SOS algorithms are not available to the user, we suggest ωB88PP86 as the best unscaled method in this work. </p> </div> </div> </div>

scholarly journals A Brief Performance Test of the M06 Family of Density Functionals for the Prediction of the Maximum Absorption Wavelength of Thioindigo in Several Solvents

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Cervantes-Navarro ◽  
Daniel Glossman-Mitnik
Keyword(s):  
Continuum Model ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Performance Test ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Density Functionals ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Polarized Continuum Model ◽  
Td Dft ◽  
Maximum Absorption Wavelength ◽  
Dependent Density

The Minnesota family of density functionals (M06, M06L, M06-2X and M06-HF) has been used to calculate the UV-Vis spectra of the thioindigo molecule in solvents of different polarities using time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) and the polarized continuum model (PCM). The maximum absorbance wavelengths predicted for each functional were compared with the known experimental results.

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