Cherry-picking resolvents: Recovering the valence contribution in X-ray two-photon absorption within the core-valence-separated equation-of-motion coupled-cluster response theory

J. Andersen, K.D. Nanda, A.I. Krylov, and S. Coriani
J. Chem. Theo. Comp.  18, 6189 – 6202 (2022)

Calculations of first-order response wave functions in the X-ray regime often diverge within correlated frameworks such as equation-of-motion coupled-cluster singles and doubles (EOM-CCSD), a consequence of the coupling with the valence ionization continuum. Here, we extend our strategy of introducing a hierarchy of approximations to the EOM-EE-CCSD resolvent (or, inversely, the model Hamiltonian) involved in the response equations for the calculation of X-ray two-photon absorption (X2PA) cross sections. We exploit the frozen-core core-valence-separation (fc-CVS) scheme to first decouple the core and valence Fock spaces, followed by a separate approximate treatment of the valence resolvent. We demonstrate the robust convergence of X-ray response calculations within this framework and compare X2PA spectra of small benchmark molecules with the previously reported density functional theory results.

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