PNNL

Abstract

The excitation energies of the four lowest-lying singlet excited states of the TiO2 Ti2O4 and Ti3O6 clusters are calculated by a variety of different Equation-of-Motion Coupled Cluster (EOM-CC) approaches in order to obtain benchmark values for the optical excitations of titanium dioxide clusters. More specifically we investigate what is the effect of the inclusion of triple excitations "triples" in the (EOM-)CC scheme on the calculated excited states of those clusters. While for the monomer and dimer the inclusion of triples causes only a rigid shift in the excitation energies, in the case of the trimer the crossing of the interested states is observed. Coupled cluster approaches where triples are treated perturbatively were found to offer no advantage over EOM-CCSD, whereas the active-space methods (EOM-CCSDt(II/I)) proved to yield results very close to the full EOM-CCSDT, but at a much lower computational cost.