Towards the multireference Brillouin-Wigner coupled-clusters method with iterative connected triples: MR BWCCSDT-alpha approximation

J Chem Phys. 2005 May 8;122(18):181101. doi: 10.1063/1.1885446.

Abstract

We developed and implemented an approximation of the state-specific Brillouin-Wigner coupled-cluster method with singles, doubles, and triples, called MRBWCCSDT-alpha, for a general number of closed- and open-shell reference configurations. The accuracy of the method is assessed on the calculation of the oxygen molecule in the X3sigma(g-), a1delta(g), and b1sigma(g+) states and the results of this multireference treatment are compared with previous MRBWCCSD results and with those obtained by the doubly ionized similarity transformed equation-of-motion CCSD and multireference configuration interaction methods and with experimental spectroscopic data. Explicit tests of the size-extensivity of the MRBWCCSDT-alpha method with iterative size-extensivity correction are also performed.