Coupled-cluster methods with perturbative inclusion of explicitly correlated terms: a preliminary investigation.

We propose to account for the large basis-set error of a conventional coupled-cluster energy and wave function by a simple perturbative correction. The perturbation expansion is constructed by Löwdin partitioning of the similarity-transformed Hamiltonian in a space that includes explicitly correlated basis functions. To test this idea, we investigate the second-order explicitly correlated correction to the coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CCSD) energy, denoted here as the CCSD(2)(R12) method. The proposed perturbation expansion presents a systematic and easy-to-interpret picture of the "interference" between the basis-set and correlation hierarchies in the many-body electronic-structure theory. The leading-order term in the energy correction is the amplitude-independent R12 correction from the standard second-order Møller-Plesset R12 method. The cluster amplitudes appear in the higher-order terms and their effect is to decrease the basis-set correction, in accordance with the usual experience. In addition to the use of the standard R12 technology which simplifies all matrix elements to at most two-electron integrals, we propose several optional approximations to select only the most important terms in the energy correction. For a limited test set, the valence CCSD energies computed with the approximate method, termed , are on average precise to (1.9, 1.4, 0.5 and 0.1%) when computed with Dunning's aug-cc-pVXZ basis sets [X = (D, T, Q, 5)] accompanied by a single Slater-type correlation factor. This precision is a roughly an order of magnitude improvement over the standard CCSD method, whose respective average basis-set errors are (28.2, 10.6, 4.4 and 2.1%). Performance of the method is almost identical to that of the more complex iterative counterpart, CCSD(R12). The proposed approach to explicitly correlated coupled-cluster methods is technically appealing since no modification of the coupled-cluster equations is necessary and the standard Møller-Plesset R12 machinery can be reused.

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