Abstract
We present an analysis of several types of embedding potentials for use within incremental expansions of SCF interaction energies. The test set comprises hydrogen-bonded clusters (water, ammonia, methanol). It is shown that an expansion up to two-body terms is sufficient for high accuracy, in all cases, as long as the environment is described by accurate embedded-monomer Coulomb and exchange potentials. A two-body expansion with atom-centered point charges for embedding leads to larger errors, but the relative differences are kept within bounds; inclusion of three-body terms often overcompensates the deviations at the two-body level, due to basis set superposition effects.
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