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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 124, Issue 40, Pages 8761-8771Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c05761
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- Max Planck Society
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy [EXC 2033-390677874-RESOLV]
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The ability to accurately compute low-energy excited states of chlorophylls is critically important for understanding the vital roles they play in light harvesting, energy transfer, and photosynthetic charge separation. The challenge for quantum chemical methods arises both from the intrinsic complexity of the electronic structure problem and, in the case of biological models, from the need to account for protein-pigment interactions. In this work, we report electronic structure calculations of unprecedented accuracy for the low-energy excited states in the Q and B bands of chlorophyll a. This is achieved by using the newly developed domain-based local pair natural orbital (DLPNO) implementation of the similarity transformed equation of motion coupled cluster theory with single and double excitations (STEOM-CCSD) in combination with sufficiently large and flexible basis sets. The results of our DLPNO-STEOM-CCSD calculations are compared with more approximate approaches. The results demonstrate that, in contrast to time-dependent density functional theory, the DLPNO-STEOM-CCSD method provides a balanced performance for both absorption bands. In addition to vertical excitation energies, we have calculated the vibronic spectrum for the Q and B bands through a combination of DLPNO-STEOM-CCSD and ground-state density functional theory frequency calculations. These results serve as a basis for comparison with gas-phase experiments.
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