7.10.6 EOM-DIP-CCSD

Double-ionization potential (DIP) is another non-electron-conserving variant of EOM-CCSD.^{1228, 611, 612} In DIP, target states are reached by detaching two electrons from the reference state:

and the excitation operator $R$ has the following form:

As a reference state in the EOM-DIP calculations one usually takes a well-behaved closed-shell state. EOM-DIP is a useful tool for describing molecules with electronic degeneracies of the type “$2n-2$ electrons on $n$ degenerate orbitals”. The simplest examples of such systems are diradicals with two-electrons-on-two-orbitals pattern. Moreover, DIP is a preferred method for four-electrons-on-three-orbitals wave functions.

Accuracy of the EOM-DIP-CCSD method is similar to accuracy of other EOM-CCSD models, i.e., 0.1–0.3 eV. The scaling of EOM-DIP-CCSD is $𝒪(N^6)$, analogous to that of other EOM-CCSD methods. However, its computational cost is less compared to, e.g., EOM-EE-CCSD, and it increases more slowly with the basis set size. An EOM-DIP calculation is invoked by using DIP_STATES, or DIP_SINGLETS and DIP_TRIPLETS. In certain circumstances, the DIP_AA_STATES, DIP_BB_STATES, DIP_BA_STATES keywords can be used.

Note:  The performance of EOM-DIP may be poor if the reference state is unstable with respect to electron detachment. See Section 7.10.11 for details.

Note:  In some applications of EOM-DIP-CCSD, only 2$h$ operators were included in the EOM part. These calculations correspond to energies obtained from EOM_PRECONV_DOUBLES = TRUE calculation.