pCCSD: parameterized coupled-cluster theory with single and double excitations.

The primary characteristics of single reference coupled-cluster (CC) theory are size-extensivity and size-consistency, invariance under orbital rotations of the occupied or virtual space, the exactness of CC theory for N electron systems when the cluster operator is truncated to N-tuple excitations, and the relative insensitivity of CC theory to the choice of the reference determinant. In this work, we propose a continuous class of methods which display the desirable features of the coupled-cluster approach with single and double excitations (CCSD). These methods are closely related to the CCSD method itself and are inspired by the coupled electron pair approximation (CEPA). It is demonstrated that one can systematically improve upon CCSD and obtain geometries, harmonic vibrational frequencies, and total energies from a parameterized version of CCSD or pCCSD(α,β) by selecting a specific member from this continuous family of approaches. In particular, one finds that one such approach, the pCCSD(-1,1) method, is a significant improvement over CCSD for the calculation of equilibrium structures and harmonic frequencies. Moreover, this method behaves surprisingly well in the calculation of potential energy surfaces for single bond dissociation. It appears that this methodology has significant promise for chemical applications and may be particularly useful in applications to larger molecules within the framework of a high accuracy local correlation approach.

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