Energy versus amplitude corrected coupled-cluster approaches. II. Breaking the triple bond

Abstract

We examine the effectiveness of various energy corrections to the standard CCSD and to the reduced multireference (RMR) CCSD methods. These corrections are based on the asymmetric energy formula, but instead of projecting onto the reference configuration, as in the standard CCSD method, we employ for this purpose either the MR CISD wave function that is based on a suitable model space of the kind used in RMR CCSD, or simply the zero-order wave function in that model space. Both full complete-active-space and severely-truncated model spaces are employed. The method is applied to the prototypical case of the triple-bond dissociation, namely, to the exactly solvable double-zeta model of the N2 molecule. It is shown that in this way we can eliminate the breakdown of the standard CCSD method in the region of highly stretched geometries and obtain reliable potential energy curves. The comparison with the recently proposed renormalized CCSD(T) and variational CCD methods is also briefly addressed.