On the Cartesian Representation of the Molecular Polarizability Tensor Surface by Polynomial Fitting to Data

Department

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-11-2022

Abstract

We describe an approach to constructing an analytic Cartesian representation of the molecular dipole polarizability tensor surface in terms of polynomials in interatomic distances with a training set of data points obtained from a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation or by any other available means. The proposed formulation is based on a perturbation treatment of the unmodified point dipole polarizability model of Applequist [ 1972, 94, 2952] and is shown here to be, by construction (i) free of short-range or other singularities or discontinuities, (ii) symmetric and translationally invariant, and (iii) nonreliant on a body-fixed coordinate system. Permutational invariance of like nuclei is demonstrated to be readily applicable, making this approach useful for highly fluxional and reactive systems. Derivation of the method is described in detail, adding brief didactic numerical examples of H and HO and concluding with an MD simulation of the Raman spectrum of HO at 300 K with the polarizability tensor fitted to CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ data obtained using the HBB-4B potential [ 2005, 122, 044308].

Journal Title

Journal of chemical theory and computation

Volume

18

Issue

1

First Page

37

Last Page

45

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1021/acs.jctc.1c01015

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