Projector-Free Capped-Fragment Scheme within Density Functional Embedding Theory for Covalent and Ionic Compounds.

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
John Mark P Martirez, Emily A Carter

Abstract

Quantum-mechanics-(QM)-based simulations now routinely aid in understanding and even discovering new chemistries involving molecules and materials exhibiting desired functionalities. Ab initio correlated wavefunction (CW) theories systematically improve QM methods, with many exhibiting high accuracy. However, execution of CW methods requires expensive computations that typically scale poorly with system size. Divide-and-conquer approaches partition large systems into smaller fragments; a lower level of theory treats fragment interactions while a preferred higher level of theory describes the important fragment. These methods offer ways to incorporate CWs into chemical simulations of large systems, e.g., biomolecules, surfaces, large inorganic clusters, bulk crystals, etc. Here we propose a partitioning protocol that utilizes capping atoms to saturate severed covalent bonds at fragment interfaces and density functional embedding theory (DFET) to describe fragment interactions. The capping groups in each fragment provide an ad-hoc potential that approximates the effects of the environment. An embedding potential optimized via DFET then serves as an augmentation of the capping group to simulate the effects of the environment. We c...Continue Reading

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