Halverson Thomas, Poirier Bill
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, P.O. Box 41061, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1061, USA.
J Chem Phys. 2014 May 28;140(20):204112. doi: 10.1063/1.4879216.
''Exact" quantum dynamics calculations of vibrational spectra are performed for two molecular systems of widely varying dimensionality (P2O and CH2NH), using a momentum-symmetrized Gaussian basis. This basis has been previously shown to defeat exponential scaling of computational cost with system dimensionality. The calculations were performed using the new "SwitchBLADE" black-box code, which utilizes both dimensionally independent algorithms and massive parallelization to compute very large numbers of eigenstates for any fourth-order force field potential, in a single calculation. For both molecules considered here, many thousands of vibrationally excited states were computed, to at least an "intermediate" level of accuracy (tens of wavenumbers). Future modifications to increase the accuracy to "spectroscopic" levels, along with other potential future improvements of the new code, are also discussed.
使用动量对称高斯基,对两个维度差异很大的分子系统(P2O和CH2NH)进行了振动光谱的“精确”量子动力学计算。先前已证明该基能够克服计算成本随系统维度呈指数增长的问题。计算使用了新的“SwitchBLADE”黑箱代码,该代码利用维度独立算法和大规模并行化,在一次计算中为任何四阶力场势计算大量本征态。对于这里考虑的两个分子,计算了数千个振动激发态,精度至少达到“中级”水平(几十波数)。还讨论了未来提高精度至“光谱”水平的改进措施,以及新代码未来其他可能的改进。