Abstract
An efficient analytical energy gradient algorithm for the cluster-in-molecule (CIM) second order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) method is presented. In our algorithm, the gradient contributions from the nonseparable term of the two-body density matrix on a given atom is extracted from calculations on a cluster constructed for this atom. The other terms in the CIM-MP2 energy gradient expression are evaluated by constructing the density matrices of the whole system with the contributions from all clusters constructed. For basis sets with diffuse functions, tight CIM parameters are necessary to obtain accurate gradients. Benchmark calculations show that the CIM-MP2 method can accurately reproduce the conventional MP2 gradients and geometries for larger systems. The optimized structure of a 174-atom oligopeptide using the CIM-MP2 method with the cc-pVDZ basis set is in good agreement with the corresponding crystal structure. The present CIM-MP2 gradient program can be used for optimizing the geometries of large systems with hundreds of atoms on ordinary workstations.
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