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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 141, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4887087
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- European Union [326652]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- project Equip@Meso of the program Investissements d'Avenir [ANR-10-EQPX-29-01]
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Computational investigation of the longest wavelength excitations in a series of cyanines and linear n-acenes is undertaken with the use of standard spin-conserving linear response time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) as well as its spin-flip variant and a Delta SCF method based on the ensemble DFT. The spin-conserving linear response TD-DFT fails to accurately reproduce the lowest excitation energy in these pi-conjugated systems by strongly overestimating the excitation energies of cyanines and underestimating the excitation energies of n-acenes. The spin-flip TD-DFT is capable of correcting the underestimation of excitation energies of n-acenes by bringing in the non-dynamic electron correlation into the ground state; however, it does not fully correct for the overestimation of the excitation energies of cyanines, for which the non-dynamic correlation does not seem to play a role. The ensemble DFT method employed in this work is capable of correcting for the effect of missing non-dynamic correlation in the ground state of n-acenes and for the deficient description of differential correlation effects between the ground and excited states of cyanines and yields the excitation energies of both types of extended pi-conjugated systems with the accuracy matching high-level ab initio multireference calculations. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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