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We report an implementation for employing the algebraic diagrammatic construction to second order [ADC(2)] ab initio electronic structure level of theory in nonadiabatic dynamics simulations in the framework of the SHARC (surface hopping including arbitrary couplings) dynamics method. The implementation is intended to enable computationally efficient, reliable, and easy-to-use nonadiabatic dynamics simulations of intersystem crossing in organic molecules. The methodology is evaluated for the 2-thiouracil molecule. It is shown that ADC(2) yields reliable excited-state energies, wave functions, and spin-orbit coupling terms for this molecule. Dynamics simulations are compared to previously reported results using high-level multi-state complete active space perturbation theory, showing favorable agreement.
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The singlet and triplet electronic excitation manifold of [3.3](4,4')biphenylophane (BPP), an intramolecular dimer, and 4,4'-dimethylbiphenyl (DMBP), the corresponding monomer, has been analyzed by employing the approximate coupled-cluster singles and doubles model (CC2). The calculated triplet-triplet and singlet-singlet transient absorption spectra show good agreement with recent experimental results. The calculations suggest a strong interaction of the two biphenyl moieties of BPP in the first singlet and triplet excited states due to the overlapping pi-electron systems, and Forster-Dexter theory for weak coupling cannot be applied. Both the first excited singlet and triplet states of BPP can be characterized as excimeric states with a strong admixture of charge-transfer contributions.
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An implementation of transition moments between excited states for the approximate coupled-cluster singles and doubles model (CC2) using the resolution of the identity (RI) approximation is reported. The accuracy of the RI approximation is analyzed for a testset of 7 molecules and 76 transitions. The RI error is found to be very small for both transition moments and oscillator strengths. Furthermore, the performance of the CC2 model in comparison with coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CCSD) is studied for 40 transitions of the same testset, yielding deviations of about 12% for the transition moments and 24% for the oscillator strengths. In addition, for 13 transitions of the testset the behavior of the transition moments with respect to seven different basis sets (Dunnings xaug-cc-pVXZ, with x=0,1,2 for X=D,T and x=2 for X=5) is analyzed, showing a strong dependence on the degree of augmentation x and a rather small effect of the cardinal number X. First applications are presented for the triplet-triplet transition moments of benzene and polyacenes (naphthalene to pentacene), showing good agreement with experimental and theoretical results for transitions between single excitation dominated states. Somewhat problematic is the insufficient description of double-excitation dominated states by the CC2 model. As transitions to such states may be strongly allowed, unlike for excitations out of the ground state, important features of transient spectra may be missed. For triplet-triplet excitations the problem is less evident as the lowest doubly excited triplet states are expected at higher energies.