Benchmarking Post-Hartree–Fock Methods To Describe the Nonlinear Optical Properties of Polymethines: An Investigation of the Accuracy of Algebraic Diagrammatic Construction (ADC) Approaches

Stefan Knippenberg, Rebecca L. Gieseking, Dirk R. Rehn, Sukrit Mukhopadhyay, Andreas Dreuw, Jean-Luc Bredas

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Abstract

Third-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of polymethine dyes have been widely studied for applications such as all-optical switching. However, the limited accuracy of the current computational methodologies has prevented a comprehensive understanding of the nature of the lowest excited states and their influence on the molecular optical and NLO properties. Here, attention is paid to the lowest excited-state energies and their energetic ratio, as these characteristics impact the figure-of-merit for all-optical switching. For a series of model polymethines, we compare several algebraic diagrammatic construction (ADC) schemes for the polarization propagator with approximate second-order coupled cluster (CC2) theory, the widely used INDO/MRDCI approach and the symmetry-adapted cluster configuration interaction (SAC-CI) algorithm incorporating singles and doubles linked excitation operators (SAC-CI SD-R). We focus in particular on the ground-to-excited state transition dipole moments and the corresponding state dipole moments, since these quantities are found to be of utmost importance for an effective description of the third-order polarizability γ and two-photon absorption spectra. A sum-overstates expression has been used, which is found to quickly converge. While ADC(3/2) has been found to be the most appropriate method to calculate these properties, CC2 performs poorly.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)5465-5476
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Volume12
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 17 2016

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: S.K. is grateful to the Georgia Institute of Technology for their hospitality in Fall 2012. The authors thank Dr. Paul Winget for computational assistance.

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