Dissecting the ingredients of optimally tuned range-separated hybrid models for reliable description of non-adiabatic couplings

Author:

Izadkhast Tahereh1,Alipour Mojtaba1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Shiraz University , Shiraz 71946-84795, Iran

Abstract

Perusing the non-radiative processes requires a reliable prediction of non-adiabatic couplings (NACs) describing the interaction of two Born–Oppenheimer surfaces. In this regard, the development of appropriate and affordable theoretical methods that accurately account for the NAC terms between different excited-states is desirable. In this work, we develop and validate several variants of the optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functionals (OT-RSHs) for investigating NACs and related properties, such as excited states energy gaps and NAC forces, within the time-dependent density functional theory framework. Particular attention is paid to the influence of the underlying density functional approximations (DFAs), the short- and long-range Hartree–Fock (HF) exchange contributions, and the range-separation parameter. Considering several radical cations and sodium-doped ammonia clusters with the available reference data for the NACs and related quantities as the working models, we have evaluated the applicability and accountability of the proposed OT-RSHs. The obtained results unveil that any combination of the ingredients in the proposed models is not proper for describing the NACs, but a particular compromise among the involved parameters is needed to achieve reliable accuracy. Scrutinizing the results of our developed methods, the OT-RSHs based on the PBEPW91, BPW91, and PBE exchange and correlation DFAs, including about 30% HF exchange at the short-range regime, appeared to be the best performers. We also find that the newly developed OT-RSHs with correct asymptotic exchange-correlation potential have superior performances as compared to their standard counterparts with the default parameters and many earlier hybrids with both fixed and interelectronic distance-dependent HF exchange. The recommended OT-RSHs in this study can hopefully be applicable as computationally efficient alternatives to the expensive wave function-based methods for the systems prone to non-adiabatic properties as well as to screen out the novel candidates prior to their challenging synthesis.

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

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