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MTASpec software for calculating the vibrational IR and Raman spectra of large molecules at ab initio level

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COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 270, Issue -, Pages -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2021.108175

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Ab initio methods; Vibrational IR/Raman spectrum; Fragmentation method

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  1. National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) , New Delhi [CORP:DG:3187]
  2. PARAM Shivay Facility
  3. NSM, Government of India at the Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi

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This article introduces a software package MTASpec, based on the Fragmentation-based molecular tailoring approach, for computing vibrational spectra of large molecular systems. The accuracy and efficiency of MTASpec have been assessed, showing promising results for spectral studies of molecular systems on a computational economy.
Fragmentation-based (FB) methods have been developed for enabling ab initiocalculations on large molecules and clusters. However, a well-benchmarked FB-based utility, for calculating the vibrational spectra is not available. The present article reports a software package MTASpec, based on the FBmolecular tailoring approach (MTA), for computing the single point energy followed by vibrational IR and Raman spectra for spatially extended molecular systems. Accuracy and efficiency of MTASpec are assessed vis-a-vis their full calculation counterparts for some medium- to large-sized molecular systems using HF, DFT and MP2 theory employing large basis sets. The code is fully automated for use on linux platform, with the Gaussian suite of software at the back-end. It is envisaged that the MTASpec package would enable spectral studies of molecular systems containing similar to 100 atoms and/or similar to 10000 basis functions employing correlated theories with computational economy.

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