On the calculation of oscillator strength for electronic transitions using ?effective core? methods

Abstract

We examine the effect on calculated oscillator strengths for electronic transitions caused by reintroducing the nodes of valence orbitals in effective core methods through a simple Schmidt orthogonalization. This refinement is then tested within the Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap (INDO) model, a valence orbital only model, in both configuration interaction and Random-Phase Approximation (RPA) calculations. It is shown that the differences in oscillator strengths calculated using the dipole-length and dipole-velocity formulations are reduced somewhat for π → * transitions and significantly for n → π* transitions. The oscillator strengths calculated from the dipole-length formalism by the RPA model are in best accord with experiment. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.