Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 15, Issue 8, Pages 4497-4506Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00529
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- NSF [CHE-1464804]
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Fragment embedding is one way to circumvent the high computational scaling of accurate electron correlation methods. The challenge of applying fragment embedding to molecular systems primarily lies in the strong entanglement and correlation that prevent accurate fragmentation across chemical bonds. Recently, Schmidt decomposition has been shown effective for embedding fragments that are strongly coupled to a bath in several model systems. In this work, we extend a recently developed quantum embedding scheme, bootstrap embedding (BE), to molecular systems. The resulting method utilizes the matching conditions naturally arising from using overlapping fragments to optimize the embedding. Numerical simulation suggests that the accuracy of the embedding improves rapidly with fragment size for small molecules, whereas larger fragments that include orbitals from different atoms may be needed for larger molecules. BE scales linearly with system size (apart from an integral transform) and hence can potentially be useful for large-scale calculations.
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