Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 154, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0036363
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- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [715594]
- COST Action [CA18234]
- European Research Council (ERC) [715594] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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An embedding approach is presented to efficiently handle local electron correlation effects in periodic environments by integrating high-level correlation calculations into low-level ones. The method demonstrates accelerated convergence with respect to the local fragment size and has shown capabilities in accurately calculating adsorption energies of molecules and lattice impurities in solids.
We present an embedding approach to treat local electron correlation effects in periodic environments. In a single consistent framework, our plane wave based scheme embeds a local high-level correlation calculation [here, Coupled Cluster (CC) theory], employing localized orbitals, into a low-level correlation calculation [here, the direct Random Phase Approximation (RPA)]. This choice allows for an accurate and efficient treatment of long-range dispersion effects. Accelerated convergence with respect to the local fragment size can be observed if the low-level and high-level long-range dispersions are quantitatively similar, as is the case for CC in RPA. To demonstrate the capabilities of the introduced embedding approach, we calculate adsorption energies of molecules on a surface and in a chabazite crystal cage, as well as the formation energy of a lattice impurity in a solid at the level of highly accurate many-electron perturbation theories. The absorption energy of a methane molecule in a zeolite chabazite is converged with an error well below 20 meV at the CC level. As our largest periodic benchmark system, we apply our scheme to the adsorption of a water molecule on titania in a supercell containing more than 1000 electrons.
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