Garcia Javier, Podeszwa Rafał, Szalewicz Krzysztof
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia at Katowice, Szkolna 9, Katowice, Poland.
J Chem Phys. 2020 May 14;152(18):184109. doi: 10.1063/5.0005093.
Symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) is a method for calculations of intermolecular (noncovalent) interaction energies. The set of SAPT codes that is described here, the current version named SAPT2020, includes virtually all variants of SAPT developed so far, among them two-body SAPT based on perturbative, coupled cluster, and density functional theory descriptions of monomers, three-body SAPT, and two-body SAPT for some classes of open-shell monomers. The properties of systems governed by noncovalent interactions can be predicted only if potential energy surfaces (force fields) are available. SAPT is the preferred approach for generating such surfaces since it is seamlessly connected to the asymptotic expansion of interaction energy. SAPT2020 includes codes for automatic development of such surfaces, enabling generation of complete dimer surfaces with a rigid monomer approximation for dimers containing about one hundred atoms. These codes can also be used to obtain surfaces including internal degrees of freedom of monomers.
对称适配微扰理论(SAPT)是一种用于计算分子间(非共价)相互作用能的方法。这里所描述的SAPT代码集,当前版本名为SAPT2020,几乎包含了迄今为止开发的所有SAPT变体,其中包括基于单体的微扰、耦合簇和密度泛函理论描述的二体SAPT、三体SAPT以及针对某些类别的开壳层单体的二体SAPT。只有当势能面(力场)可用时,才能预测由非共价相互作用控制的系统的性质。SAPT是生成此类表面的首选方法,因为它与相互作用能的渐近展开无缝连接。SAPT2020包括用于自动开发此类表面的代码,能够以刚性单体近似生成包含约一百个原子的二聚体的完整二聚体表面。这些代码还可用于获得包括单体内部自由度的表面。