An efficient approach for self-consistent-field energy and energy second derivatives in the atomic-orbital basis.

Based on self-consistent-field (SCF) perturbation theory, we recast the SCF and the coupled-perturbed SCF (CPSCF) equations for time-independent molecular properties into the atomic-orbital basis. The density matrix and the perturbed density matrix are obtained iteratively by solving linear equations. Only matrix multiplications and additions are required, and this approach can exploit sparse matrix multiplications and thereby offer the possibility of evaluating second-order properties in computational effort that scales linearly with system size. Convergence properties are similar to conventional molecular-orbital-based CPSCF procedures, in terms of the number of derivative Fock matrices that must be constructed. We also carefully address the issue of the numerical accuracy of the calculated second derivatives of the energy, in order to specify the minimum precision necessary in the CPSCF procedure. It is found that much looser tolerances for the perturbed density matrices are adequate when using an expression for the second derivatives that is correct through second order in the CPSCF error.

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