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Electronic structure theory relies heavily on approximations. \cite{Szabo_1996,Helgaker_2013,Jensen_2017}
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Electronic structure theory relies heavily on approximations. \cite{Szabo_1996,Helgaker_2013,Jensen_2017}
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Loosely speaking, to make any theory useful, three main approximations must be enforced.
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Loosely speaking, to make any method practical, three main approximations must be enforced.
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The first fundamental approximation, known as the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, usually consists in assuming that the motion of nuclei and electrons are decoupled. \cite{Born_1927}
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The first fundamental approximation, known as the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, usually consists in assuming that the motion of nuclei and electrons are decoupled. \cite{Born_1927}
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The nuclei coordinates can then be treated as parameters in the electronic Hamiltonian.
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The nuclei coordinates can then be treated as parameters in the electronic Hamiltonian.
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The second central approximation which makes calculations feasible by a computer is the basis set approximation where one introduces a set of pre-defined basis functions to represent the many-electron wave function of the system.
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The second central approximation which makes calculations feasible by a computer is the basis set approximation where one introduces a set of pre-defined basis functions to represent the many-electron wave function of the system.
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The truncation of $\hT$ allows to define a hierarchy of non-variational and size-extensive methods with improved accuracy:
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The truncation of $\hT$ allows to define a hierarchy of non-variational and size-extensive methods with improved accuracy:
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CC with singles and doubles (CCSD), \cite{Cizek_1966,Purvis_1982} CC with singles, doubles, and triples (CCSDT), \cite{Noga_1987a,Scuseria_1988} CC with singles, doubles, triples, and quadruples (CCSDTQ), \cite{Oliphant_1991,Kucharski_1992} with corresponding computational scalings of $\order*{\Norb^{6}}$, $\order*{\Norb^{8}}$, and $\order*{\Norb^{10}}$, respectively (where $\Norb$ denotes the number of orbitals).
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CC with singles and doubles (CCSD), \cite{Cizek_1966,Purvis_1982} CC with singles, doubles, and triples (CCSDT), \cite{Noga_1987a,Scuseria_1988} CC with singles, doubles, triples, and quadruples (CCSDTQ), \cite{Oliphant_1991,Kucharski_1992} with corresponding computational scalings of $\order*{\Norb^{6}}$, $\order*{\Norb^{8}}$, and $\order*{\Norb^{10}}$, respectively (where $\Norb$ denotes the number of orbitals).
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Parallel to the ``complete'' CC series presented above, an alternative series of approximate iterative CC models have been developed by the Aarhus group in the context of CC response theory \cite{Christiansen_1998} where one skips the most expensive terms and avoids the storage of the higher-excitation amplitudes: CC2, \cite{Christiansen_1995a} CC3, \cite{Christiansen_1995b,Koch_1997} and CC4. \cite{Kallay_2005,Matthews_2021,Loos_2021}
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Parallel to the ``complete'' CC series presented above, an alternative family of approximate iterative CC models have been developed by the Aarhus group in the context of CC response theory \cite{Christiansen_1998} where one skips the most expensive terms and avoids the storage of the higher-excitation amplitudes: CC2, \cite{Christiansen_1995a} CC3, \cite{Christiansen_1995b,Koch_1997} and CC4. \cite{Kallay_2005,Matthews_2021}
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These iterative methods scale as $\order*{\Norb^{5}}$, $\order*{\Norb^{7}}$, and $\order*{\Norb^{9}}$, respectively, and can be seen as cheaper approximations of CCSD, CCSDT, and CCSDTQ.
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These iterative methods scale as $\order*{\Norb^{5}}$, $\order*{\Norb^{7}}$, and $\order*{\Norb^{9}}$, respectively, and can be seen as cheaper approximations of CCSD, CCSDT, and CCSDTQ.
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Coupled-cluster methods have been particularly successful at computing accurately various properties for small- and medium-sized molecules.
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Coupled-cluster methods have been particularly successful at computing accurately various properties for small- and medium-sized molecules.
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\cite{Kallay_2003,Kallay_2004a,Gauss_2006,Kallay_2006,Gauss_2009}
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\cite{Kallay_2003,Kallay_2004a,Gauss_2006,Kallay_2006,Gauss_2009,Chrayteh_2021,Sarkar_2021}
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A similar systematic truncation strategy can be applied to CI methods leading to the well-established family of methods known as CISD, CISDT, CISDTQ, \ldots~where one systematically increases the maximum excitation degree of the determinants taken into account.
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A similar systematic truncation strategy can be applied to CI methods leading to the well-established family of methods known as CISD, CISDT, CISDTQ, \ldots~where one systematically increases the maximum excitation degree of the determinants taken into account.
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Except for full CI (FCI) where all determinants from the Hilbert space (\ie, with excitation degree up to $\Nel$) are considered, truncated CI methods are variational but lack size-consistency.
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Except for full CI (FCI) where all determinants from the Hilbert space (\ie, with excitation degree up to $\Nel$) are considered, truncated CI methods are variational but lack size-consistency.
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The non-variationality of truncated CC methods being less of an issue than the size-inconsistency of the truncated CI methods, the formers have naturally overshadowed the latters in the electronic structure landscape.
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The non-variationality of truncated CC methods being less of an issue than the size-inconsistency of the truncated CI methods, the formers have naturally overshadowed the latters in the electronic structure landscape.
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However, a different strategy has recently made a come back in the context of CI methods. \cite{Bender_1969,Whitten_1969,Huron_1973}
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However, a different strategy has recently made a come back in the context of CI methods. \cite{Bender_1969,Whitten_1969,Huron_1973}
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Indeed, selected CI (SCI) methods, \cite{Booth_2009,Giner_2013,Evangelista_2014,Giner_2015,Holmes_2016,Tubman_2016,Liu_2016,Ohtsuka_2017,Zimmerman_2017,Coe_2018,Garniron_2018} where one iteratively selects the important determinants from the FCI space (usually) based on a perturbative criterion, has been recently shown to be highly successful in order to produce reference energies for ground and excited states in small- and medium-sized molecules \cite{Holmes_2017,Li_2018,Li_2020,Loos_2018a,Chien_2018,Loos_2019,Loos_2020b,Loos_2020c,Loos_2020e,Garniron_2019,Eriksen_2020,Yao_2020,Veril_2021,Loos_2021} thanks to efficient deterministic, stochastic or hybrid algorithms well suited for massive parallelization.
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Indeed, selected CI (SCI) methods, \cite{Booth_2009,Giner_2013,Evangelista_2014,Giner_2015,Caffarel_2016b,Holmes_2016,Tubman_2016,Liu_2016,Ohtsuka_2017,Zimmerman_2017,Coe_2018,Garniron_2018} where one iteratively selects the important determinants from the FCI space (usually) based on a perturbative criterion, has been recently shown to be highly successful in order to produce reference energies for ground and excited states in small- and medium-sized molecules \cite{Caffarel_2014,Caffarel_2016a,Scemama_2016,Holmes_2017,Li_2018,Scemama_2018,Scemama_2018b,Li_2020,Loos_2018a,Chien_2018,Loos_2019,Loos_2020b,Loos_2020c,Loos_2020e,Garniron_2019,Eriksen_2020,Yao_2020,Williams_2020,Veril_2021,Loos_2021} thanks to efficient deterministic, stochastic or hybrid algorithms well suited for massive parallelization.
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We refer the interested reader to Refs.~\onlinecite{Loos_2020a,Eriksen_2021} for recent reviews.
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We refer the interested reader to Refs.~\onlinecite{Loos_2020a,Eriksen_2021} for recent reviews.
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SCI methods are based on a well-known fact: amongst the very large number of determinants contained in the FCI space, only a relative small fraction of them significantly contributes to the energy.
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SCI methods are based on a well-known fact: amongst the very large number of determinants contained in the FCI space, only a relative small fraction of them significantly contributes to the energy.
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Accordingly, the SCI+PT2 family of methods performs a sparse exploration of the FCI space by selecting iteratively only the most energetically relevant determinants of the variational space and supplementing it with a second-order perturbative correction (PT2). \cite{Huron_1973,Garniron_2017,Sharma_2017,Garniron_2018,Garniron_2019}
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Accordingly, the SCI+PT2 family of methods performs a sparse exploration of the FCI space by selecting iteratively only the most energetically relevant determinants of the variational space and supplementing it with a second-order perturbative correction (PT2). \cite{Huron_1973,Garniron_2017,Sharma_2017,Garniron_2018,Garniron_2019}
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Again, MP perturbation theory and CC methods can be coupled.
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Again, MP perturbation theory and CC methods can be coupled.
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The CCSD(T) method, \cite{Raghavachari_1989} known as the gold-standard of quantum chemistry for weakly correlated systems, is probably the most iconic example of such coupling.
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The CCSD(T) method, \cite{Raghavachari_1989} known as the gold-standard of quantum chemistry for weakly correlated systems, is probably the most iconic example of such coupling.
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Motivated by the recent blind test of Eriksen \textit{et al.}\cite{Eriksen_2020}~reporting the performance of a large panel of emerging electronic structure methods [the many-body expansion FCI (MBE-FCI), \cite{Eriksen_2017,Eriksen_2018,Eriksen_2019a,Eriksen_2019b} adaptive sampling CI (ASCI), \cite{Tubman_2016,Tubman_2018,Tubman_2020} iterative CI (iCI), \cite{Liu_2014,Liu_2016,Lei_2017,Zhang_2020} semistochastic heat-bath CI (SHCI), \cite{Holmes_2016,Holmes_2017,Sharma_2017} the full coupled-cluster reduction (FCCR), \cite{Xu_2018,Xu_2020} density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG), \cite{White_1992,White_1993,Chan_2011} adaptive-shift FCI quantum Monte Carlo (AS-FCIQMC), \cite{Booth_2009,Cleland_2010,Ghanem_2019} and cluster-analysis-driven FCIQMC (CAD-FCIQMC) \cite{Deustua_2017,Deustua_2018}] on the non-relativistic frozen-core correlation energy of the benzene molecule in the standard correlation-consistent double-$\zeta$ Dunning basis set (cc-pVDZ), some of us have recently investigated the performance of the \textit{Configuration Interaction using a Perturbative Selection made Iteratively} (CIPSI) method \cite{Huron_1973,Giner_2013,Giner_2015,Garniron_2018,Garniron_2019} on the very same system \cite{Loos_2020e} [see also Ref.~\onlinecite{Lee_2020} for a study of the performance of phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) \cite{Motta_2018}].
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Motivated by the recent blind test of Eriksen \textit{et al.}\cite{Eriksen_2020}~reporting the performance of a large panel of emerging electronic structure methods [the many-body expansion FCI (MBE-FCI), \cite{Eriksen_2017,Eriksen_2018,Eriksen_2019a,Eriksen_2019b} adaptive sampling CI (ASCI), \cite{Tubman_2016,Tubman_2018,Tubman_2020} iterative CI (iCI), \cite{Liu_2014,Liu_2016,Lei_2017,Zhang_2020} semistochastic heat-bath CI (SHCI), \cite{Holmes_2016,Holmes_2017,Sharma_2017} the full coupled-cluster reduction (FCCR), \cite{Xu_2018,Xu_2020} density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG), \cite{White_1992,White_1993,Chan_2011} adaptive-shift FCI quantum Monte Carlo (AS-FCIQMC), \cite{Booth_2009,Cleland_2010,Ghanem_2019} and cluster-analysis-driven FCIQMC (CAD-FCIQMC) \cite{Deustua_2017,Deustua_2018}] on the non-relativistic frozen-core correlation energy of the benzene molecule in the standard correlation-consistent double-$\zeta$ Dunning basis set (cc-pVDZ), some of us have recently investigated the performance of the SCI method known as \textit{Configuration Interaction using a Perturbative Selection made Iteratively} (CIPSI). \cite{Huron_1973,Giner_2013,Giner_2015,Garniron_2018,Garniron_2019} on the very same system \cite{Loos_2020e} [see also Ref.~\onlinecite{Lee_2020} for a study of the performance of phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) \cite{Motta_2018}].
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In the continuity of this recent work, we report here a significant extension by estimating the (frozen-core) FCI/cc-pVDZ correlation energy of twelve cyclic molecules (cyclopentadiene, furan, imidazole, pyrrole, thiophene, benzene, pyrazine, pyridazine, pyridine, pyrimidine, tetrazine, and triazine) with the help of CIPSI employing energetically-optimized orbitals at the same level of theory. \cite{Yao_2020,Yao_2021}
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In the continuity of this recent work, we report here a significant extension by estimating the (frozen-core) FCI/cc-pVDZ correlation energy of twelve cyclic molecules (cyclopentadiene, furan, imidazole, pyrrole, thiophene, benzene, pyrazine, pyridazine, pyridine, pyrimidine, tetrazine, and triazine) with the help of CIPSI employing energetically-optimized orbitals at the same level of theory. \cite{Yao_2020,Yao_2021}
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These systems are depicted in Fig.~\ref{fig:mol}.
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These systems are depicted in Fig.~\ref{fig:mol}.
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This set of molecular systems corresponds to Hilbert spaces with sizes ranging from $10^{28}$ (for thiophene) to $10^{36}$ (for benzene).
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This set of molecular systems corresponds to Hilbert spaces with sizes ranging from $10^{28}$ (for thiophene) to $10^{36}$ (for benzene).
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The present manuscript is organized as follows.
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The present manuscript is organized as follows.
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In Sec.~\ref{sec:compdet}, computational details concerning geometries, basis sets, and methods are reported.
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In Sec \ref{sec:OO-CIPSI}, we provide theoretical details about the CIPSI algorithm and the orbital optimization procedure that we have employed here.
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Section \ref{sec:OO-CIPSI} provides theoretical details about the CIPSI algorithm and the orbital optimization procedure that we have employed here.
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Section.~\ref{sec:compdet} deals with computational details concerning geometries, basis sets, and methods.
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In Sec.~\ref{sec:res}, we report our reference FCI correlation energies for the five-membered and six-membered cyclic molecules obtained thanks to extrapolated orbital-optimized CIPSI calculations (Sec.~\ref{sec:cipsi_res}).
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In Sec.~\ref{sec:res}, we report our reference FCI correlation energies for the five-membered and six-membered cyclic molecules obtained thanks to extrapolated orbital-optimized CIPSI calculations (Sec.~\ref{sec:cipsi_res}).
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These reference correlation energies are then used to benchmark and study the convergence properties of various perturbative and CC methods (Sec.~\ref{sec:mpcc_res}).
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These reference correlation energies are then used to benchmark and study the convergence properties of various perturbative and CC methods (Sec.~\ref{sec:mpcc_res}).
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Finally, we draw our conclusions in Sec.~\ref{sec:ccl}.
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Finally, we draw our conclusions in Sec.~\ref{sec:ccl}.
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The geometries of the twelve systems considered in the present study have been all obtained at the CC3/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory and have been extracted from a previous study. \cite{Loos_2020a}
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Note that, for the sake of consistency, the geometry of benzene considered here is different from one of Ref.~\onlinecite{Loos_2020e} which has been computed at a lower level of theory [MP2/6-31G(d)]. \cite{Schreiber_2008}
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The MP2, MP3, MP4, CC2, CC3, CC4, CCSD, CCSDT, and CCSDTQ calculations have been performed with CFOUR, \cite{Matthews_2020} while the CCSD(T) and MP5 calculations have been computed with GAUSSIAN 09. \cite{g09}
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The CIPSI calculations have been performed with QUANTUM PACKAGE. \cite{Garniron_2019}
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In the current implementation, the selection step and the PT2 correction are computed simultaneously via a hybrid semistochastic algorithm \cite{Garniron_2017,Garniron_2019} (which explains the statistical error associated with the PT2 correction in the following).
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Here, we employ the renormalized version of the PT2 correction which has been recently implemented and tested for a more efficient extrapolation to the FCI limit thanks to a partial resummation of the higher-order of perturbation. \cite{Garniron_2019}
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We refer the interested reader to Ref.~\onlinecite{Garniron_2019} where one can find all the details regarding the implementation of the PT2 correction and the CIPSI algorithm.
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For all these calculations, we consider Dunning's correlation-consistent double-$\zeta$ basis (cc-pVDZ).
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Although the FCI energy has the enjoyable property of being independent of the set of one-electron orbitals used to construct the many-electron Slater determinants, as a truncated CI method, the convergence properties of CIPSI strongly dependent on this orbital choice.
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In the present study, we investigate, in particular, the convergence behavior of the CIPSI energy for two sets of orbitals: natural orbitals (NOs) and optimized orbitals (OOs).
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Following our usual procedure, \cite{Scemama_2018,Scemama_2018b,Scemama_2019,Loos_2018a,Loos_2019,Loos_2020a,Loos_2020b,Loos_2020c,Loos_2020e} we perform first a preliminary SCI calculation using HF orbitals in order to generate a SCI wave function with at least $10^7$ determinants.
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Natural orbitals are computed based on this wave function and they are used to perform a new CIPSI run.
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Successive orbital optimizations are then performed, which consist in minimizing the variational CIPSI energy at each iteration up to approximately $2 \times 10^5$ determinants.
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When convergence is achieved in terms of orbital optimization, as our ``production'' run, we perform a new CIPSI calculation from scratch using this set of optimized orbitals.
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Using optimized orbitals has the undeniable advantage to produce, for a given variational energy, more compact CI expansions.
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For the benzene molecule, we also explore the use of localized orbitals (LOs) which are produced with the Boys-Foster localization procedure \cite{Boys_1960} that we apply to the natural orbitals in several orbital windows in order to preserve a strict $\sigma$-$\pi$ separation in the planar systems considered here. \cite{Loos_2020e}
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Because they take advantage of the local character of electron correlation, localized orbitals have been shown to provide faster convergence towards the FCI limit compared to natural orbitals. \cite{Angeli_2003,Angeli_2009,BenAmor_2011,Suaud_2017,Chien_2018,Eriksen_2020,Loos_2020e}
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As we shall see below, employing optimized orbitals has the advantage to produce an even smoother and faster convergence of the SCI energy toward the FCI limit.
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Note both localized and optimized orbitals do break the spatial symmetry.
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Unlike excited-state calculations where it is important to enforce that the wave functions are eigenfunctions of the $\Hat{S}^2$ spin operator, \cite{Chilkuri_2021} the present wave functions do not fulfill this property as we aim for the lowest possible energy of a closed-shell singlet state.
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We have found that $\expval*{\Hat{S}^2}$ is, nonetheless, very close to zero for each system.
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The present calculations have been performed on the AMD partition of GENCI's Irene supercomputer.
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Each Irene's AMD node is a dual-socket AMD Rome (EPYC) CPU at 2.60 GHz with 256GiB of RAM, with a total of 64 physical cores per socket.
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These nodes are connected via Infiniband HDR100.
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In total, the present calculations have required around 3,000,000 core hours.
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All the data (geometries, energies, etc) and supplementary material associated with the present manuscript are openly available in Zenodo at \href{http://doi.org/XX.XXXX/zenodo.XXXXXXX}{http://doi.org/XX.XXXX/zenodo.XXXXXXX}.
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The evolution of the trust radius during the optimization and the use of a condition to cancel the step when the energy rises ensure the convergence of the algorithm.
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The evolution of the trust radius during the optimization and the use of a condition to cancel the step when the energy rises ensure the convergence of the algorithm.
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More details can be found in Ref.~\onlinecite{Nocedal_1999}.
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More details can be found in Ref.~\onlinecite{Nocedal_1999}.
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The geometries of the twelve systems considered in the present study have been all obtained at the CC3/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory and have been extracted from a previous study. \cite{Loos_2020a}
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Note that, for the sake of consistency, the geometry of benzene considered here is different from one of Ref.~\onlinecite{Loos_2020e} which has been computed at a lower level of theory [MP2/6-31G(d)]. \cite{Schreiber_2008}
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The MP2, MP3, MP4, CC2, CC3, CC4, CCSD, CCSDT, and CCSDTQ calculations have been performed with CFOUR, \cite{Matthews_2020} while the CCSD(T) and MP5 calculations have been computed with GAUSSIAN 09. \cite{g09}
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The CIPSI calculations have been performed with QUANTUM PACKAGE. \cite{Garniron_2019}
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In the current implementation, the selection step and the PT2 correction are computed simultaneously via a hybrid semistochastic algorithm.\cite{Garniron_2017,Garniron_2019} %(which explains the statistical error associated with the PT2 correction in the following).
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Here, we employ the renormalized version of the PT2 correction which has been recently implemented and tested for a more efficient extrapolation to the FCI limit thanks to a partial resummation of the higher-order of perturbation. \cite{Garniron_2019}
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We refer the interested reader to Ref.~\onlinecite{Garniron_2019} where one can find all the details regarding the implementation of the PT2 correction and the CIPSI algorithm.
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Following our usual procedure, \cite{Scemama_2018,Scemama_2018b,Scemama_2019,Loos_2018a,Loos_2019,Loos_2020a,Loos_2020b,Loos_2020c,Loos_2020e} we perform first a preliminary SCI calculation using HF orbitals in order to generate a SCI wave function with at least $10^7$ determinants.
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Natural orbitals are computed based on this wave function and they are used to perform a new CIPSI run.
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Successive orbital optimizations are then performed, which consist in minimizing the variational CIPSI energy at each iteration up to approximately $2 \times 10^5$ determinants.
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When convergence is achieved in terms of orbital optimization, as our ``production'' run, we perform a new CIPSI calculation from scratch using this set of optimized orbitals.
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Using optimized orbitals has the undeniable advantage to produce, for a given variational energy, more compact CI expansions.
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For the benzene molecule, we also explore the use of localized orbitals (LOs) which are produced with the Boys-Foster localization procedure \cite{Boys_1960} that we apply to the natural orbitals in several orbital windows in order to preserve a strict $\sigma$-$\pi$ separation in the planar systems considered here. \cite{Loos_2020e}
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Because they take advantage of the local character of electron correlation, localized orbitals have been shown to provide faster convergence towards the FCI limit compared to natural orbitals. \cite{Angeli_2003,Angeli_2009,BenAmor_2011,Suaud_2017,Chien_2018,Eriksen_2020,Loos_2020e}
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As we shall see below, employing optimized orbitals has the advantage to produce an even smoother and faster convergence of the SCI energy toward the FCI limit.
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Note both localized and optimized orbitals do break the spatial symmetry.
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Unlike excited-state calculations where it is important to enforce that the wave functions are eigenfunctions of the $\Hat{S}^2$ spin operator, \cite{Chilkuri_2021} the present wave functions do not fulfill this property as we aim for the lowest possible energy of a closed-shell singlet state.
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We have found that $\expval*{\Hat{S}^2}$ is, nonetheless, very close to zero for each system.
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The present calculations have been performed on the AMD partition of GENCI's Irene supercomputer.
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Each Irene's AMD node is a dual-socket AMD Rome (EPYC) CPU at 2.60 GHz with 256GiB of RAM, with a total of 64 physical cores per socket.
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These nodes are connected via Infiniband HDR100.
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