An extrapolation method for the efficient calculation of molecular response properties within Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics

Flaig, Denis and Ochsenfeld, Christian (2013): An extrapolation method for the efficient calculation of molecular response properties within Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics. In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 15, No. 23: pp. 9392-9396

Abstract

The calculation of molecular response properties in dynamic molecular systems is a major challenge that requires sampling over many steps of, e. g., Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BO-MD) simulations. We present an extrapolation scheme to accelerate such calculations for multiple steps within BO-MD trajectories or equivalently within other sampling methods of conformational space. The extrapolation scheme is related to the one introduced by Pulay and Fogarasi Chem. Phys. Lett., 2004, 386, 272] for self-consistent field (SCF) energy calculations. We extend the extrapolation to the quantities within our density matrix-based Laplace-transformed coupled perturbed SCF (DL-CPSCF) method that allows for linear-scaling calculations of response properties for large molecular systems. Here, we focus on the example of calculating NMR chemical shifts for which the number of required DL-CPSCF iterations reduces by roughly 40-70%.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Faculties: Chemistry and Pharmacy
• Subjects: 500 Science > 540 Chemistry
• ISSN: 1463-9076
• Alliance/National Licence: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
• Language: English