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- Melisa AlkanMelisa AlkanDepartment of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United StatesAmes Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United StatesMore by Melisa Alkan
- Peng XuPeng XuDepartment of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United StatesAmes Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United StatesMore by Peng Xu
- Mark S. Gordon*Mark S. Gordon*(M.S.G.) E-mail: [email protected]Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United StatesAmes Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United StatesMore by Mark S. Gordon
Abstract

Many-body dispersion has gained considerable attention over the past decade, particularly for condensed phase systems. However, quantitatively accurate studies of many-body dispersion have only recently become feasible due to challenges in reliability and accuracy. Currently available methodologies for calculating many-body dispersion have been challenged, with recent evidence suggesting, for example, that dispersion-corrected density functional theory (DFT) schemes cannot consistently predict many-body dispersion accurately. This study evaluates many-body dispersion energies using a composite approach that employs singles and doubles coupled cluster theory with perturbative/noniterative triples, CCSD(T), combined with an extrapolation to the complete basis set (CBS) limit. The combined CCSD(T)/CBS approach is applied to Arn and (H2O)n, n = 3–10, clusters, and a new data set called S22(3), which includes trimers generated based on the S22 data set. In these systems, the many-body dispersion provides a very small contribution to the total interaction energy of all of the systems studied, generally 3% or less of the total interaction energy. Two-body dispersion is the dominant dispersion contribution and many-body dispersion contributes no more than 5.7% of the total dispersion energy, generally staying below 2%.
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