Accurate Anharmonic Zero-Point Energies for Some Combustion-Related Species from Diffusion Monte Carlo
Author(s) -
Lawrence B. Harding,
Yuri Georgievskii,
Stephen J. Klippenstein
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the journal of physical chemistry a
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 235
eISSN - 1520-5215
pISSN - 1089-5639
DOI - 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b03082
Subject(s) - anharmonicity , diffusion monte carlo , monte carlo method , zero point energy , perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) , physics , electronic structure , diffusion , vibrational energy , statistical physics , molecule , molecular physics , quantum mechanics , monte carlo molecular modeling , mathematics , statistics , markov chain monte carlo
Full-dimensional analytic potential energy surfaces based on CCSD(T)/cc-pVTZ calculations have been determined for 48 small combustion-related molecules. The analytic surfaces have been used in Diffusion Monte Carlo calculations of the anharmonic zero-point energies. The resulting anharmonicity corrections are compared to vibrational perturbation theory results based both on the same level of electronic structure theory and on lower-level electronic structure methods (B3LYP and MP2).
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