The NEO-TDDFT method
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is a multicomponent extension of the TDDFT method within the NEO framework.
It allows the simultaneous calculation of the electronic and proton vibrational excitation energies. In the NEO-TDDFT method,
the linear response of the NEO Kohn-Sham system to perturbative external fields is computed. The NEO-TDDFT working equation is
(13.46) |
where
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(13.48) | ||||
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(13.51) |
Here, the occupied electronic orbitals are denoted with indices and , whereas the unoccupied electronic orbitals are denoted with indices and . The analogous upper case indices denote protonic orbitals. The solution of Eq. (13.46) provides the electronic and proton vibrational excitation energies , as well as the transition excitation and de-excitation amplitudes, and , respectively. Analogous to the TDDFT method, the Tamm-Dancoff approximation (TDA) can be imposed within the NEO framework, defining the NEO-TDDFT-TDA method that is represented by
(13.52) |
The extension of the NEO-TDDFT and NEO-TDDFT-TDA approaches to open-shell electron systems is straightforward.
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NEO-TDHF and NEO-CIS have similar forms as NEO-TDDFT and NEO-TDA without electron-proton, electron-electron, or proton-proton correlation.
The analytical gradients for NEO-CIS/NEO-TDA/NEO-TDHF/NEO-TDDFT are available,
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enabling geometry optimizations on the excited state vibronic potential energy surfaces. For NEO-TDA and NEO-TDDFT,
analytical gradients are available for the epc17-2 functional or when no electron-proton correlation functional is used.
The transition densities can be analyzed to determine the percentages of electronic and protonic character for each vibronic excited state.