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7.10 Coupled-Cluster Excited-State and Open-Shell Methods

7.10.22 EOM-CCSDT variants for Exclusively High Accuracy (CCMAN2 only)

(May 21, 2025)

The equation-of-motion singles, doubles and triples (EOM-CCSDT) method 849 Manisha, Manohar P. U.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
(2024), 26, pp. 21204.
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can be viewed as an extension of EOM-CCSD method in which full triples are employed at the CC level (in addition to singles and doubles) and at the EOM level. Conceptually, EOM-CCSD and EOM-CCSDT are similar; the difference lies only in the truncation level. The CC Hamiltonian matrix being non-Hermitian, the left and right eigenvectors are not Hermitian conjugates of each other but can be chosen to form a mutually biorthogonal set. Using Eq. 7.86, the right eigenvectors can be obtained and this is sufficient for obtaining energies (and excitation energies) of the corresponding target states. For gradients and properties, one must in addition solve for the left eigenvectors of the respective states.

In EOM-CCSDT, the CCSDT Hamiltonian matrix is constructed up to the triples block so as to give one-, two-, and three-body eigenvectors of the CC Hamiltonian. As a result, the EOM-CCSDT computed energies and properties are highly accurate as compared even to the EOM-CCSD ones, by almost an order of magnitude. For example, EOM-CCSDT provides an accurcy of 0.01 eV for singly excited states and single bond-breaking, and an accuracy of 0.1–0.2 eV for doubly excited states. In contrast, at the EOM-CCSD levels these errors are on the order of 0.1–0.2 eV and >1 eV, respectively. EOM-CCSDT has 𝒪(N8) scaling versus 𝒪(N6) for EOM-CCSD. Unlike EOM-CC(2,3), the EOM-CCSDT approach is rigorously size-intensive, as is EOM-CCSD, but it is expensive enough that it can only be used with careful memory management. Currently, the SF 849 Manisha, Manohar P. U.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
(2024), 26, pp. 21204.
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, EE, IP, EA, DIP, and DEA variants of EOM-CCSDT are available, for single point energy computations only, and can be requested by setting METHOD = EOM-CCSDT. EOM-CCSDT is implemented within the new coupled-cluster suite (CCMAN2) both within double and within singe precision. Other job-control variables are similar to EOM-CCSD ones.

Illustrative examples employing EOM-CCSDT for computing excitation energies are given below.

Example 7.138  Computation of first excited singlet (B1) and first excited triplet (B2) energies of BH using EOM-EE-CCSDT/STO-3G in a single-precision setup.

$comment
Computation of energies singlet and a triplet excited states of BH
using EOM-EE-CCSDT/STO-3G
$end

$molecule
0 1
B
H  1  1.234347
$end

$rem
basis=sto-3g
job_type=sp
method eom-ccsdt
cc_single_prec=1
eom_single_prec=1
n_frozen_core fc
ee_singlets=[0,0,1,0]
ee_triplets=[0,0,0,1]
$end

Example 7.139  Computation of singlet ground state and lowest triplet state energies of BH using EOM-SF-CCSDT/STO-3G in a double-precision setup.

$comment
Computation of spin-flipping excitation energies of
BH using EOM-SF-CCSDT/STO-3G, UHF reference
$end

$molecule
0 3
B
H 1 1.191857
$end

$rem
jobtype=sp
method eom-ccsdt
basis=sto-3g
sf_states=[1,0,0,1]
eom_nguess_singles=4
n_frozen_core fc
$end

Illustrative examples employing EOM-CCSDT method for computing ionization energies/electron affinities are given below.

Example 7.140  Computation of the singlet ground state and lowest four IP state energies of N2 using EOM-IP-CCSDT/6-31G* in a double-precision setup.

$molecule
0 1
N
N 1  1.097685
$end

$rem
method=eom-ccsdt
IP_states=[4]
basis=6-31G*
cc_symmetry=false
EOM_davidson_convergence=6
job_type=sp
$end

Example 7.141  Computation of singlet ground state and lowest four EA state energies of C2 using EOM-EA-CCSDT/6-31G* in a double-precision setup.

$molecule
0 1
C
C 1  1.243
$end

$rem
method=eom-ccsdt
EA_states=[4]
basis=6-31G*
cc_symmetry=false
EOM_davidson_convergence=6
job_type=sp
$end

Example 7.142  Computation of singlet ground state and lowest two DIP state energies of O using EOM-DIP-CCSDT/6-31G in a double-precision setup.

$molecule
-2 1
O
$end

$rem
method=eom-ccsdt
basis=6-31g
DIP_STATES=[2]
cc_symmetry=false
$end

Example 7.143  Computation of singlet ground state and lowest two DEA state energies of C using EOM-DEA-CCSDT/6-31G in a double-precision setup.

$molecule
2  1
C
$end

$rem
method=eom-ccsdt
basis=6-31g
DEA_STATES=[2]
cc_symmetry=false
$end