Noniterative Corrections to Extended Coupled-Cluster Energies Employing the Generalized Method of Moments of Coupled-Cluster Equations

It is shown that the extended coupled-cluster method with singles and doubles (ECCSD) does not suffer from the non-variational collapse observed in the standard CCSD calculations when multiple bond breaking is examined. This interesting feature of the single-reference ECCSD theory is used to design the non-iterative CC methods with singles, doubles and non-iterative triples and quadruples, which provide a highly accurate and variational description of potential energy surfaces involving multiple bond breaking with computational steps that scale as with the system size. This is accomplished with the help of the generalized version of the method of moments of coupled-cluster equations (GMMCC), which can be used to correct the results of non-standard CC calculations, such as ECCSD. The theoretical considerations are illustrated by the preliminary results of the ECCSD-based GMMCC calculations for triple bond breaking in N2. Keywords: Coupled-cluster theory; Extended coupled-cluster method; Method of moments of coupled-cluster equations; Non-iterative coupled-cluster approaches; Bond breaking