Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2000, 2

Additions and corrections

Excitation energies and transition moments by the multireference averaged quadratic coupled cluster (MR-AQCC) method

Péter G. Szalay, Thomas Müller and Hans Lischka

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2000, 2, 2067 (DOI: 10.1039/b000224k). Amendment published 18th April 2001

Recomputation of the energy of CH2 with DZP basis at 170° (Table 1 in the paper) showed that the published data obtained with the 22 CAS reference space are in error. While the error for the ground state is minor, it is of significance for the excited 2 1A1 state. Consequently, the reported deviations of excitation energy with respect to full CI (Table 2 in the paper) are also wrong. The new results are given in the table below. Note that the corrected deviations of the excitation energies from full CI results are smaller than those given in the paper. Therefore this error does not alter the conclusion of the paper by any means.

All other numbers in the paper have been recalculated and no further error has been discovered.

Acknowledgement

We thank Dr Robert Gdanitz for pointing out the error to us.

Table  Recalculated relative energies of the 1 1A1 and 2 1A1 states of the CH2 for the 170° geometry with 22 CAS reference space and the corresponding deviation of the excitation energy from full CIa

Method Orbital Energy (Table 1) Excitation energy (Table 2)

1 1A1 2 1A1

MR-CISD Specific 5.543 6.991 0.039
MR-AQCC 3.012 3.627 0.017
MR-ACPF 1.191 1.154 0.001
 
MR-CISD Averaged 5.654 6.984 0.036
MR-AQCC 3.102 3.583 0.013
MR-AQCC-LRT 3.102 3.897 0.022
MR-ACPF 1.265 1.081 0.005
MR-ACPF-LRT 1.265 1.656 0.011
a Energies are given in mEh with respect to the full CI energy, i.e., EEFCI; deviation of the excitation energy is given in eV.


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