Scaling behavior of ground-state energy cluster expansion for linear polyenes Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Ground-state energies for linear-chain polyenes are additively expanded in a sequence of terms for chemically relevant conjugated substructures of increasing size. The asymptotic behavior of the large-substructure limit (i.e., high-polymer limit) is investigated as a means of characterizing the rapidity of convergence and consequent utility of this energy cluster expansion. Consideration is directed to computations via: simple Hckel theory, a refined Hckel scheme with geometry optimization, restricted Hartree-Fock self-consistent field (RHF-SCF) solutions of fixed bond-length Parisier-Parr-Pople (PPP)/Hubbard models, and ab initio SCF approaches with and without geometry optimization. The cluster expansion in what might be described as the more "refined" approaches appears to lead to qualitatively more rapid convergence: exponentially fast as opposed to an inverse power at the simple Hckel or SCF-Hubbard levels. The substructural energy cluster expansion then seems to merit special attention. Its possible utility in making accurate extrapolations from finite systems to extended polymers is noted. 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

published proceedings

  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUANTUM CHEMISTRY

author list (cited authors)

  • Griffin, L. L., Wu, J., Klein, D. J., Schmalz, T. G., & Bytautas, L.

citation count

  • 4

complete list of authors

  • Griffin, LL||Wu, J||Klein, DJ||Schmalz, TG||Bytautas, L

publication date

  • April 2005

publisher