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#1 2022-02-02 15:39:20

kgvladi
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Registered: 2022-02-02
Posts: 3

Non-adiabatic couplings for high symmetry molecules

Dear all, I am trying to compute the non-adiabatic coupling derivatives with ALASKA for a homonuclear diatomic with OpenMolcas v. 21.06.

Since I was checking, I computed for both D2h and C2v symmetry setup. In both cases the following happens.

RASSCF converges and it converges to the proper solution. The NAC's are successfully computed for symmetry 1 (Ag or A1), but if I compute other symmetries I get the "Non-zero return code". I do not see any complaints from the program. I need the couplings between the states of B2u/B3u or B2/B1 symmetry. How should I do it? Please can you be so kind as to help me to find out what am I missing?

This is my input for D2h:

++ ---------   Input file   ---------

&GATEWAY
 Title = test calculation of N2
 Coord
 2
 bohr
    N  0.00000000  0.00000000   -1.7550000000
    N  0.00000000  0.00000000    1.7550000000
 Group  = full
 Basis = aug-cc-pVTZ


End of Input

&SEWARD
End of Input

&SCF
 Charge = 0
End of Input

&RASSCF
 nActEl=  14  0  0
 Inactive =   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
 Ras2     =   3  1  1  0  3  1  1  0
 Symmetry =   2
 Spin     =   3
 CIRoot   =   5  5
 1  2  3  4  5
  1  1  1  1  1
End of Input

&ALASKA
 NAC = 4 5

-- ----------------------------------

And here is how it ends up:

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                                              &ALASKA

                                   only a single process is used
                       available to each process: 6.0 GB of memory, 1 thread?
                                             pid: 50129
()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()
 
--- Stop Module: alaska at Wed Feb  2 15:25:26 2022 /rc=_RC_INVOKED_OTHER_MODULE_ ---
*** files: xmldump
    saved to directory /home/data/kgvladi/nat_diag/nacs

*** symbolic link created: INPORB -> n2_sym_xs.RasOrb
--- Start Module: mclr at Wed Feb  2 15:25:26 2022 ---
 
()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()

                                               &MCLR

                                   only a single process is used
                       available to each process: 6.0 GB of memory, 1 thread?
                                             pid: 50132
()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()
 
 Ordinary integral handling
 No .RLXPT2  or MCKINT  , I hope that is OK
 Seward mode is assumed, reading perturbation from ONEINT  
 OrdInt status: non-squared
 
++   Wave function specifications:
     -----------------------------
 
     Number of closed shell electrons              0
     Number of electrons in active shells         14
     Max number of holes in RAS1 space             0
     Max number of electrons in RAS3 space         0
     Number of inactive orbitals                   0
     Number of active orbitals                    10
     Number of secondary orbitals                 82
     Spin quantum number                         1.0
     State symmetry                                2
     Number of roots                               5
     States considered                             1     2     3     4     5
     Weights                                   0.200 0.200 0.200 0.200 0.200
 
     Symmetry species                              1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8
     Skiped sym. species                           0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     Frozen orbitals                               0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     Inactive orbitals                             0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     Active orbitals                               3     1     1     0     3     1     1     0
     RAS1 orbitals                                 0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     RAS2 orbitals                                 3     1     1     0     3     1     1     0
     RAS3 orbitals                                 0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     Deleted orbitals                              0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     Number of basis functions                    19    11    11     5    19    11    11     5
     Number of Orbitals                           19    11    11     5    19    11    11     5
     Number of configurations                    834   870   870   866   884   870   870   866
     Number of combinations                     1110  1182  1182  1226  1160  1182  1182  1226
     Natural orbitals are used in the last CI
     RASSCF state energy =           -108.6642316478
     Size of explicit Hamiltonian in PCG:        100
--
 
     Convergence threshold=               1.0000E-04
     Max number of iterations in PCG:            200
     Lagrangian multipliers are calculated for states no.   4/  5
 
 
--- Stop Module: mclr at Wed Feb  2 15:25:26 2022 /rc=174 ---
*** files: xmldump
    saved to directory /home/data/kgvladi/nat_diag/nacs

.########################.
.# Non-zero return code #.
.########################.

    Timing: Wall=6.38 User=4.82 System=1.00

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#2 2022-02-03 16:22:34

Ignacio
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From: Uppsala
Registered: 2015-11-03
Posts: 1,011

Re: Non-adiabatic couplings for high symmetry molecules

The non-zero return code could be a bug, but in any case you cannot compute NAC between states belonging to different computational irreps. If you requested "symmetry = 2", all your states belong to the 2nd irrep. The only way would be to do the calculation with a lower symmetry and identify your desired states.

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#3 2022-02-03 16:39:05

kgvladi
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Registered: 2022-02-02
Posts: 3

Re: Non-adiabatic couplings for high symmetry molecules

Dear Ignacio, thanks for your prompt response! Yes, I am interested in computing the NACs within on irrep, irrep=2. What I want to compute is the NAC between the root 4 and 5 of the 2nd irrep. So I set NAC=4 5. Should I put something else?

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#4 2022-02-17 16:21:07

Ignacio
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Registered: 2015-11-03
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Re: Non-adiabatic couplings for high symmetry molecules

As far as I can see, NAC is just not working with symmetry (even when it doesn't crash, the result is probably wrong).

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#5 2022-02-17 16:24:00

kgvladi
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Registered: 2022-02-02
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Re: Non-adiabatic couplings for high symmetry molecules

Thanks a lot for letting me know. Already did the C1 computations and it is working nicely  wink

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