title: Constructing diabatic states from adiabatic states: extending generalized Mulliken-Hush to multiple charge centers with boys localization.
abstract: This article shows that, although Boys localization is usually applied to single-electron orbitals, the Boys method itself can be applied to many electron molecular states. For the two-state charge-transfer problem, we show analytically that Boys localization yields the same charge-localized diabatic states as those found by generalized Mulliken-Hush theory. We suggest that for future work in electron transfer, where systems have more than two charge centers, one may benefit by using a variant of Boys localization to construct diabatic potential energy surfaces and extract electronic coupling matrix elements. We discuss two chemical examples of Boys localization and propose a generalization of the Boys algorithm for creating diabatic states with localized spin density that should be useful for Dexter triplet-triplet energy transfer.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel. subotnik@post.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Joseph E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Subotnik
authors.forename: Sina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yeganeh
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Cave
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Ratner