title: Spin-unrestricted random-phase approximation with range separation: Benchmark on atomization energies and reaction barrier heights.
abstract: We consider several spin-unrestricted random-phase approximation (RPA) variants for calculating correlation energies, with and without range separation, and test them on datasets of atomization energies and reaction barrier heights. We show that range separation greatly improves the accuracy of all RPA variants for these properties. Moreover, we show that a RPA variant with exchange, hereafter referred to as RPAx-SO2, first proposed by Szabo and Ostlund [J. Chem. Phys. 67, 4351 (1977)] in a spin-restricted closed-shell formalism, and extended here to a spin-unrestricted formalism, provides on average the most accurate range-separated RPA variant for atomization energies and reaction barrier heights. Since this range-separated RPAx-SO2 method had already been shown to be among the most accurate range-separated RPA variants for weak intermolecular interactions [J. Toulouse et al., J. Chem. Phys. 135, 084119 (2011)], this works confirms range-separated RPAx-SO2 as a promising method for general chemical applications.
authors.affiliation: Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Institut du Calcul et de la Simulation, F-75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Bastien
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mussard
authors.affiliation: Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7616, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, F-75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reinhardt
authors.affiliation: CRM2, Institut Jean Barriol, Université de Lorraine, F-54506 Vandœuvre-lés-Nancy, France.
authors.forename: János G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Ángyán
authors.affiliation: Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7616, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, F-75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Toulouse