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We consider a rapidly rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) containing a vortex l... more We consider a rapidly rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) containing a vortex lattice. We calculate the dispersion relation for small oscillations of vortex positions (Tkachenko modes) in the mean-field quantum Hall regime, taking into account the coupling of these modes with density excitations. Using an analytic form for the density of the vortex lattice, we numerically calculate the elastic constants for different lattice geometries. We also apply this method to calculate the elastic constant for the single-component triangular lattice. For a two-component BEC, there are two kinds of Tkachenko modes, which we call acoustic and optical in analogy with phonons. For all lattice types, acoustic Tkachenko mode frequencies have quadratic wave-number dependence at long wavelengths, while the optical Tkachenko modes have linear dependence. For triangular lattices the dispersion of the Tkachenko modes are isotropic, while for other lattice types the dispersion relations show directional dependence consistent with the symmetry of the lattice. Depending on the intercomponent interaction there are five distinct lattice types, and four structural phase transitions between them. Two of these transitions are second order and are accompanied by the softening of an acoustic Tkachenko mode. The remaining two transitions are first order and while one of them is accompanied by the softening of an optical mode, the other does not have any dramatic effect on the Tkachenko spectrum. We also find an instability of the vortex lattice when the intercomponent repulsion becomes stronger than the repulsion within components.

A simple analytical ansatz, which has been used to describe the intensity profile of the similari... more A simple analytical ansatz, which has been used to describe the intensity profile of the similariton laser (a laser with self-similar propagation of ultrashort pulses), is used as a variational wave function to solve the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a wide range of interaction parameters. The variational form interpolates between the noninteracting density profile and the strongly interacting Thomas-Fermi profile smoothly. The simple form of the ansatz is modified for both cylindrically symmetric and completely anisotropic harmonic traps. The resulting ground-state density profile and energy are in very good agreement with both the analytical solutions in the limiting cases of interaction and the numerical solutions in the intermediate regime.

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The mod-n scheme is introduced to the coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CCSD) and third-order ... more The mod-n scheme is introduced to the coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CCSD) and third-order M{\o}ller-Plesset perturbation (MP3) methods for extended systems of one-dimensional periodicity. By downsampling uniformly the wave vectors in Brillouin-zone integrations, this scheme accelerates these accurate but expensive correlation-energy calculations by two to three orders of magnitude while incurring negligible errors in their total and relative energies. To maintain this accuracy, the number of the nearest-neighbor unit cells included in the lattice sums must also be reduced by the same downsampling rate (n). The mod-n CCSD and MP3 methods are applied to the potential-energy surface of polyethylene in anharmonic frequency calculations of its infrared- and Raman-active vibrations. The calculated frequencies are found to be within 46 cm−1 (CCSD) and 78 cm−1 (MP3) of the observed.

The vibrational self-consistent field (VSCF) method is a mean-field approach to solve the vibrati... more The vibrational self-consistent field (VSCF) method is a mean-field approach to solve the vibrational Schrödinger equation and serves as a basis of vibrational perturbation and coupled-cluster methods. Together they account for anharmonic effects on vibrational transition frequencies and vibrationally averaged properties. This article reports the definition, programmable equations, and corresponding initial implementation of a diagrammatically size-extensive modification of VSCF, from which numerous terms with nonphysical size dependence in the original VSCF equations have been eliminated. When combined with a quartic force field (QFF), this compact and strictly size-extensive VSCF (XVSCF) method requires only quartic force constants of the ∂(4)V/∂Q(i)(2)∂Q(j)(2) type, where V is the electronic energy and Q(i) is the ith normal coordinate. Consequently, the cost of a XVSCF calculation with a QFF increases only quadratically with the number of modes, while that of a VSCF calculation grows quartically. The effective (mean-field) potential of XVSCF felt by each mode is shown to be harmonic, making the XVSCF equations subject to a self-consistent analytical solution without matrix diagonalization or a basis-set expansion, which are necessary in VSCF. Even when the same set of force constants is used, XVSCF is nearly three orders of magnitude faster than VSCF implemented similarly. Yet, the results of XVSCF and VSCF are shown to approach each other as the molecular size is increased, implicating the inclusion of unnecessary, nonphysical terms in VSCF. The diagrams of the XVSCF energy expression and their evaluation rules are also proposed, underscoring their connected structures.

A procedure to determine optimal vibrational coordinates is developed on the basis of an earlier ... more A procedure to determine optimal vibrational coordinates is developed on the basis of an earlier idea of Thompson and Truhlar [J. Chem. Phys. 77, 3031 (1982)]. For a given molecule, these coordinates are defined as the unitary transform of the normal coordinates that minimizes the energy of the vibrational self-consistent-field (VSCF) method for the ground state. They are justified by the fact that VSCF in these coordinates becomes exact in two limiting cases: harmonic oscillators, where the optimized coordinates are normal, and noninteracting anharmonic oscillators, in which the optimized coordinates are localized on individual oscillators. A robust and general optimization algorithm is developed, which decomposes the transformation matrix into a product of Jacobi matrices, determines the rotation angle of each Jacobi matrix that minimizes the energy, and iterates the process until a minimum in the whole high dimension is reached. It is shown that the optimized coordinates are neither entirely localized nor entirely delocalized (or normal) in any of the molecules (the water, water dimer, and ethylene molecules) examined (apart from the aforementioned limiting cases). Rather, high-frequency stretching modes tend to be localized, whereas low-frequency skeletal vibrations remain normal. On the basis of these coordinates, we introduce two new vibrational structure methods: optimized-coordinate VSCF (oc-VSCF) and optimized-coordinate vibrational configuration interaction (oc-VCI). For the modes that become localized, oc-VSCF is found to outperform VSCF, whereas, for both classes of modes, oc-VCI exhibits much more rapid convergence than VCI with respect to the rank of excitations. We propose a rational configuration selection for oc-VCI when the optimized coordinates are localized. The use of the optimized coordinates in VCI with this configuration selection scheme reduces the mean absolute errors in the frequencies of the fundamentals and the first overtones/combination tones from 104.7 (VCI) to 10.7 (oc-VCI) and from 132.4 (VCI) to 8.2 (oc-VCI) cm(-1) for the water molecule and the water dimer, respectively. It is also shown that the degree of coupling in the potential for ethylene is reduced effectively from four modes to three modes by the transformation from the normal to optimized coordinates, which enhances the accuracy of oc-VCI with low-rank excitations.

In the size-extensive vibrational self-consistent field (XVSCF) method introduced earlier [M. Ke{... more In the size-extensive vibrational self-consistent field (XVSCF) method introduced earlier [M. Ke{\c{c}}eli and S. Hirata, J. Chem. Phys.135, 134108 (2011)]10.1063/1.3644895, only a small subset of even-order force constants that can form connected diagrams were used to compute extensive total energies and intensive transition frequencies. The mean-field potentials of XVSCF formed with these force constants have been shown to be effectively harmonic, making basis functions, quadrature, or matrix diagonalization in the conventional VSCF method unnecessary. We introduce two size-consistent VSCF methods, XVSCF(n) and XVSCF[n], for vibrationally averaged geometries in addition to energies and frequencies including anharmonic effects caused by up to the nth-order force constants. The methods are based on our observations that a small number of odd-order force constants of certain types can form open, connected diagrams isomorphic to the diagram of the mean-field potential gradients and that these nonzero gradients shift the potential minima by intensive amounts, which are interpreted as anharmonic geometry corrections. XVSCF(n) evaluates these mean-field gradients and force constants at the equilibrium geometry and estimates this shift accurately, but approximately, neglecting the coupling between these two quantities. XVSCF[n] solves the coupled equations for geometry corrections and frequencies with an iterative algorithm, giving results that should be identical to those of VSCF when applied to an infinite system. We present the diagrammatic and algebraic definitions, algorithms, and initial implementations as well as numerical results of these two methods. The results show that XVSCF(n) and XVSCF[n] reproduce the vibrationally averaged geometries of VSCF for naphthalene and anthracene in their ground and excited vibrational states accurately at fractions of the computational cost.

A pedagogical proof is presented for the extensivity of energies of metallic and nonmetallic crys... more A pedagogical proof is presented for the extensivity of energies of metallic and nonmetallic crystals that proceeds by elucidating the asymptotic distance dependence of the effective chemical interactions: kinetic, Coulomb, exchange, and correlation. On this basis, a guideline for the size-consistent design of electronic and vibrational methods is proposed. This guideline underscores the significance of the distinct use of the intermediate and standard normalization of wave functions for extensive and intensive quantities, includes the extensive and intensive diagram theorems as the unambiguous criteria for determining size consistency of a method for extensive and intensive quantities, and introduces the extensive-intensive consistency theorem, which stipulates the precise balance between the determinant spaces reached by extensive and intensive operators. Electronic and vibrational methods for crystals are reviewed that are inspired by these formal analyses or developed in accordance with the guideline. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry Volume 63 is March 31, 2012. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/catalog/pubdates.aspx for revised estimates.

The symmetric-stretching fundamental ($\nu$1) and the bending first overtone (2$\nu$2) of CO2, wh... more The symmetric-stretching fundamental ($\nu$1) and the bending first overtone (2$\nu$2) of CO2, which are accidentally degenerate with the same symmetry, undergo a Fermi resonance and give rise to two Raman bands with a frequency difference of 107 cm−1 and an intensity ratio of 2.1. Both the frequency difference and intensity ratio can be varied by pressure applied to CO2 in condensed phases, which has been utilized as a spectroscopic geobarometer for minerals with CO2 inclusion. This study calculates the pressure dependence of the Fermi dyad frequency difference and intensity ratio by combining the embedded-fragment second-order M{\o}ller–Plesset perturbation calculations of harmonic frequencies of solid CO2 under pressure and the coupled-cluster singles and doubles with noniterative triples and vibrational configuration-interaction calculations of anharmonic frequencies of molecular CO2. It reproduces frequency difference quantitatively and intensity ratio qualitatively up to 10 GPa. The analysis of the results is shown to render strong support for one particular order of unperturbed frequencies, nu\nunu1 {\textgreater} 2$\nu$2, in both the gas and solid phases, which has been a matter of controversy for decades.

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The structural model ( i.e. adsorption site of oxygen atom on the surface of MXene) has a paramou... more The structural model ( i.e. adsorption site of oxygen atom on the surface of MXene) has a paramount impact on the electronic and thermoelectric properties of MXene crystals, which can be exploited to engineer the thermoelectric properties of these materials.

Large-scale implementation of high level computational theoretical chemical kinetics offers the p... more Large-scale implementation of high level computational theoretical chemical kinetics offers the prospect for dramatically improving the fidelity of combustion chemical modeling. As a first step toward this goal, we developed a procedure for automatically generating the thermochemical data for combustion of an arbitrary fuel. The procedure begins by producing a list of combustion relevant species from a specification of the fuel and combustion conditions of interest. Then, for each element in the list of species, the procedure determines an internal coordinate z-matrix description of its structure, the optimal torsional configuration via Monte Carlo sampling, key rovibrational properties for that optimal geometry (including anharmonic corrections from torsional mappings and/or vibrational perturbation theory), and high level estimates of the electronic and zero-point energies via arbitrarily defined composite methods. This dataset is then converted first to partition functions, then to thermodynamic properties, and finally to NASA polynomial representations of the data. The end product is an automatically generated database of electronic structure results and thermochemical data including representations in a format appropriate for combustion simulations. The utility and functioning of this predictive automated computational thermochemistry (PACT) software package is illustrated through application to the automated generation of thermochemical data for the combustion of n-butane. Butane is chosen for this demonstration as its species list is of reasonably manageable size for debugging level computations, while still presenting most of the key challenges that need to be surmounted in the consideration of larger fuels. Furthermore, its low temperature chemistry is representative of that occurring with larger alkanes.

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Computational applications of electronic and vibrational many-body theories are increasingly indi... more Computational applications of electronic and vibrational many-body theories are increasingly indispensable in interpreting and, in some instances, predicting the spectra of gas-phase molecular species of importance in interstellar chemistry as well as in atmospheric and combustion chemistry. This chapter briefly reviews our methodological developments of electronic and vibrational many-body theories that are particularly useful for these gas-phase molecular problems. Their applications to anharmonic vibrational frequencies of triatomic and tetratomic interstellar molecules and to electronic absorption spectra of the radical ions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium, are also discussed.

The Journal of Chemical Physics

For many computational chemistry packages, being able to efficiently and effectively scale across... more For many computational chemistry packages, being able to efficiently and effectively scale across an exascale cluster is a heroic feat. Collective experience from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project suggests that achieving exascale performance requires far more planning, design, and optimization than scaling to petascale. In many cases, entire rewrites of software are necessary to address fundamental algorithmic bottlenecks. This in turn requires a tremendous amount of resources and development time, resources that cannot reasonably be afforded by every computational science project. It thus becomes imperative that computational science transition to a more sustainable paradigm. Key to such a paradigm is modular software. While the importance of modular software is widely recognized, what is perhaps not so widely appreciated is the effort still required to leverage modular software in a sustainable manner. The present manuscript introduces PluginPlay, https://githu...

Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) continue to attract a lot of attention, particularly for their e... more Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) continue to attract a lot of attention, particularly for their extreme flexibility and superior thermal properties. Molecular dynamics simulations are among the most powerful methods for computing these properties, but their reliability depends on the accuracy of interatomic interactions. While first principles approaches provide the most accurate description of interatomic forces, they are computationally expensive. In contrast, classical force fields are computationally efficient, but have limited accuracy in interatomic force description. Machine learning interatomic potentials, such as Gaussian Approximation Potentials, trained on density functional theory (DFT) calculations offer a compromise by providing both accurate estimation and computational efficiency. In this work, we present a systematic procedure to develop Gaussian approximation potentials for selected 2DMs, graphene, buckled silicene, and h-XN (X = B, Al, and Ga, as binary compounds)...

Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2018

2019 IEEE/ACM Third Workshop on Deep Learning on Supercomputers (DLS), 2019

Mapping all the neurons in the brain requires automatic reconstruction of entire cells from volum... more Mapping all the neurons in the brain requires automatic reconstruction of entire cells from volume electron microscopy data. The flood-filling network (FFN) architecture has demonstrated leading performance for segmenting structures from this data. However, the training of the network is computationally expensive. In order to reduce the training time, we implemented synchronous and data-parallel distributed training using the Horovod library, which is different from the asynchronous training scheme used in the published FFN code. We demonstrated that our distributed training scaled well up to 2048 Intel Knights Landing (KNL) nodes on the Theta supercomputer. Our trained models achieved similar level of inference performance, but took less training time compared to previous methods. Our study on the effects of different batch sizes on FFN training suggests ways to further improve training efficiency. Our findings on optimal learning rate and batch sizes agree with previous works.

2020 IEEE/ACM 2nd Annual Workshop on Extreme-scale Experiment-in-the-Loop Computing (XLOOP), 2020

We present a fully modular and scalable software pipeline for processing electron microscope (EM)... more We present a fully modular and scalable software pipeline for processing electron microscope (EM) images of brain slices into 3D visualization of individual neurons and demonstrate an end-to-end segmentation of a large EM volume using a supercomputer. Our pipeline scales multiple packages used by the EM community with minimal changes to the original source codes. We tested each step of the pipeline individually, on a workstation, a cluster, and a supercomputer. Furthermore, we can compose workflows from these operations using a Balsam database that can be triggered during the data acquisition or with the use of different front ends and control the granularity of the pipeline execution. We describe the implementation of our pipeline and modifications required to integrate and scale up existing codes. The modular nature of our environment enables diverse research groups to contribute to the pipeline without disrupting the workflow, i.e. new individual codes can be easily integrated for each step on the pipeline.

This work describes the software package, Valence, for the calculation of molecular ener... more This work describes the software package, Valence, for the calculation of molecular energies using the variational subspace valence bond (VSVB) method. VSVB is a highly scalable ab initio electronic structure method based on non-orthogonal orbitals. Important features of practical value include: Valence bond wave functions of Hartree–Fock quality can be constructed with a single determinant; excited states can be modeled with a single configuration or determinant; wave functions can be constructed automatically by combining orbitals from previous calculations. The opensource software package includes tools to generate wave functions, a database of generic orbitals, example input files, and a library build intended for integration with other packages. We also describe the interface to an external software package, enabling the computation of optimized molecular geometries and vibrational frequencies.

Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2018

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Journal of computational chemistry, Jan 15, 2018

Integration of Shift-and-Invert Parallel Spectral Transformation (SIPs) eigensolver (as implement... more Integration of Shift-and-Invert Parallel Spectral Transformation (SIPs) eigensolver (as implemented in the SLEPc library) into an ab initio molecular dynamics package, SIESTA, is described. The effectiveness of the code is demonstrated on applications to polyethylene chains, boron nitride sheets, and bulk water clusters. For problems with the same number of orbitals, the performance of the SLEPc eigensolver depends on the sparsity of the matrices involved, favoring reduced dimensional systems such as polyethylene or boron nitride sheets in comparison to bulk systems like water clusters. For all problems investigated, performance of SIESTA-SIPs exceeds the performance of SIESTA with default solver (ScaLAPACK) at the larger number of cores and the larger number of orbitals. A method that improves the load-balance with each iteration in the self-consistency cycle by exploiting the emerging knowledge of the eigenvalue spectrum is demonstrated. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Journal of chemical theory and computation, Jan 6, 2016

The heats of formation and the normalized clustering energies (NCEs) for the group 4 and group 6 ... more The heats of formation and the normalized clustering energies (NCEs) for the group 4 and group 6 transition metal oxide (TMO) trimers and tetramers have been calculated by the Feller-Peterson-Dixon (FPD) method. The heats of formation predicted by the FPD method do not differ much from those previously derived from the NCEs at the CCSD(T)/aT level except for the CrO3 nanoclusters. New and improved heats of formation for Cr3O9 and Cr4O12 were obtained using PW91 orbitals instead of Hartree-Fock (HF) orbitals. Diffuse functions are necessary to predict accurate heats of formation. The fluoride affinities (FAs) are calculated with the CCSD(T) method. The relative energies (REs) of different isomers, NCEs, electron affinities (EAs), and FAs of (MO2)n ( M = Ti, Zr, Hf, n = 1 - 4 ) and (MO3)n ( M = Cr, Mo, W, n = 1 - 3) clusters have been benchmarked with 55 exchange-correlation DFT functionals including both pure and hybrid types. The absolute errors of the DFT results are mostly less th...

Journal of computational chemistry, Jan 17, 2015

The Shift-and-invert parallel spectral transformations (SIPs), a computational approach to solve ... more The Shift-and-invert parallel spectral transformations (SIPs), a computational approach to solve sparse eigenvalue problems, is developed for massively parallel architectures with exceptional parallel scalability and robustness. The capabilities of SIPs are demonstrated by diagonalization of density-functional based tight-binding (DFTB) Hamiltonian and overlap matrices for single-wall metallic carbon nanotubes, diamond nanowires, and bulk diamond crystals. The largest (smallest) example studied is a 128,000 (2000) atom nanotube for which ∼330,000 (∼5600) eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are obtained in ∼190 (∼5) seconds when parallelized over 266,144 (16,384) Blue Gene/Q cores. Weak scaling and strong scaling of SIPs are analyzed and the performance of SIPs is compared with other novel methods. Different matrix ordering methods are investigated to reduce the cost of the factorization step, which dominates the time-to-solution at the strong scaling limit. A parallel implementation of a...

Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 2010

ABSTRACT Computational applications of electronic and vibrational many-body theories are increasi... more ABSTRACT Computational applications of electronic and vibrational many-body theories are increasingly indispensable in interpreting and, in some instances, predicting the spectra of gas-phase molecular species of importance in interstellar chemistry as well as in atmospheric and combustion chemistry. This chapter briefly reviews our methodological developments of electronic and vibrational many-body theories that are particularly useful for these gas-phase molecular problems. Their applications to anharmonic vibrational frequencies of triatomic and tetratomic interstellar molecules and to electronic absorption spectra of the radical ions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium, are also discussed.

Physical Review B, 2010

The mod-n scheme is introduced to the coupled-cluster singles and doubles ͑CCSD͒ and third-order ... more The mod-n scheme is introduced to the coupled-cluster singles and doubles ͑CCSD͒ and third-order Møller-Plesset perturbation ͑MP3͒ methods for extended systems of one-dimensional periodicity. By downsampling uniformly the wave vectors in Brillouin-zone integrations, this scheme accelerates these accurate but expensive correlation-energy calculations by two to three orders of magnitude while incurring negligible errors in their total and relative energies. To maintain this accuracy, the number of the nearest-neighbor unit cells included in the lattice sums must also be reduced by the same downsampling rate ͑n͒. The mod-n CCSD and MP3 methods are applied to the potential-energy surface of polyethylene in anharmonic frequency calculations of its infraredand Raman-active vibrations. The calculated frequencies are found to be within 46 cm −1 ͑CCSD͒ and 78 cm −1 ͑MP3͒ of the observed.

Physical Review A, 2006

We consider a rapidly rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) containing a vortex l... more We consider a rapidly rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) containing a vortex lattice. We calculate the dispersion relation for small oscillations of vortex positions (Tkachenko modes) in the mean-field quantum Hall regime, taking into account the coupling of these modes with density excitations. Using an analytic form for the density of the vortex lattice, we numerically calculate the elastic constants for different lattice geometries. We also apply this method to calculate the elastic constant for the single-component triangular lattice. For a two-component BEC, there are two kinds of Tkachenko modes, which we call acoustic and optical in analogy with phonons. For all lattice types, acoustic Tkachenko mode frequencies have quadratic wave-number dependence at long-wavelengths, while the optical Tkachenko modes have linear dependence. For triangular lattices the dispersion of the Tkachenko modes are isotropic, while for other lattice types the dispersion relations show directional dependence consistent with the symmetry of the lattice. Depending on the intercomponent interaction there are five distinct lattice types, and four structural phase transitions between them. Two of these transitions are second-order and are accompanied by the softening of an acoustic Tkachenko mode. The remaining two transitions are first-order and while one of them is accompanied by the softening of an optical mode, the other does not have any dramatic effect on the Tkachenko spectrum. We also find an instability of the vortex lattice when the intercomponent repulsion becomes stronger than the repulsion within components.

Physical Review A, 2007

A simple analytical ansatz, which has been used to describe the intensity profile of the similari... more A simple analytical ansatz, which has been used to describe the intensity profile of the similariton laser [1, 4] is used as a variational wave function to solve the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a wide range of interaction parameters. The variational form interpolates between the non-interacting density profile and the strongly interacting Thomas-Fermi profile smoothly. The simple form of the ansatz is modified for both cylindrically symmetric and completely anisotropic harmonic traps. The resulting ground state density profile and energy are in very good agreement with both the analytical solutions in the limiting cases of interaction and the numerical solutions in the intermediate regime.

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The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2014

The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2010

The frequencies of the infrared-and/or Raman-active ͑k =0͒ vibrations of polyethylene and polyace... more The frequencies of the infrared-and/or Raman-active ͑k =0͒ vibrations of polyethylene and polyacetylene are computed by taking account of the anharmonicity in the potential energy surfaces ͑PESs͒ and the resulting phonon-phonon couplings explicitly. The electronic part of the calculations is based on Gaussian-basis-set crystalline orbital theory at the Hartree-Fock and second-order Møller-Plesset ͑MP2͒ perturbation levels, providing one-, two-, and/or three-dimensional slices of the PES ͑namely, using the so-called n-mode coupling approximation with n =3͒, which are in turn expanded in the fourth-order Taylor series with respect to the normal coordinates. The vibrational part uses the vibrational self-consistent field, vibrational MP2, and vibrational truncated configuration-interaction ͑VCI͒ methods within the ⌫ approximation, which amounts to including only k = 0 phonons. It is shown that accounting for both electron correlation and anharmonicity is essential in achieving good agreement ͑the mean and maximum absolute deviations less than 50 and 90 cm −1 , respectively, for polyethylene and polyacetylene͒ between computed and observed frequencies. The corresponding values for the calculations including only one of such effects are in excess of 120 and 300 cm −1 , respectively. The VCI calculations also reproduce semiquantitatively the frequency separation and intensity ratio of the Fermi doublet involving the 2 ͑0͒ fundamental and 8 ͑͒ first overtone in polyethylene.

The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2010

Size-extensive generalizations of the vibrational self-consistent field (VSCF), vibrational Molle... more Size-extensive generalizations of the vibrational self-consistent field (VSCF), vibrational Moller-Plesset perturbation (VMP), and vibrational coupled-cluster (VCC) methods are made to anharmonic lattice vibrations of extended periodic systems on the basis of a quartic force field (QFF) in delocalized normal coordinates. Copious terms in the formalisms of VSCF that have nonphysical size dependence are identified algebraically and eliminated, leading to compact and strictly size-extensive equations. This &amp;amp;amp;quot;quartic&amp;amp;amp;quot; VSCF method (qVSCF) thus defined has no contributions from cubic force constants and alters only the transition energies of the underlying harmonic-oscillator reference from a subset of quartic force constants. It also provides a way to evaluate an anharmonic correction to the lattice structure due to cubic force constants of a certain type. The second-order VMP and VCC methods in the QFF based on the qVSCF reference are shown to account for anharmonic effects due to all cubic and quartic force constants in a size-extensive fashion. These methods can be readily extended to a higher-order truncated Taylor expansion of a potential energy surface in normal coordinates. An algebraic proof of the lack of size-extensivity in the vibrational configuration-interaction method is also presented.