Dalton is a powerful general-purpose program system for the study of molecular electronic structure at the Hartree–Fock, Kohn–Sham, multiconfigurational self-consistent-field, Møller–Plesset, configuration-interaction, and coupled-cluster levels of theory. Apart from the total energy, a wide variety of molecular properties may be calculated using these electronic-structure models. Molecular gradients and Hessians are available for geometry optimizations, molecular dynamics, and vibrational studies, whereas magnetic resonance and optical activity can be studied in a gauge-origin-invariant manner. Frequency-dependent molecular properties can be calculated using linear, quadratic, and cubic response theory. A large number of singlet and triplet perturbation operators are available for the study of one-, two-, and three-photon processes. Environmental effects may be included using various dielectric-medium and quantum-mechanics/molecular-mechanics models. Large molecules may be studied using linear-scaling and massively parallel algorithms. Dalton is distributed at no cost from http://www.daltonprogram.org for a number of UNIX platforms.
We investigate the performance of CC2 and TDDFT/CAM-B3LYP for the calculation of two-photon absorption (TPA) strengths and cross sections and contrast our results to a recent coupled cluster equation-of-motion (EOM-EE-CCSD) benchmark study [K. D. Nanda and A. I. Krylov, J. Chem. Phys., 2015, 142, 064118]. In particular, we investigate whether CC2 TPA strengths are significantly overestimated compared to higher-level coupled-cluster calculations for fluorescent protein chromophores. Our conclusion is that CC2 TPA strengths are only slightly overestimated compared to the reference EOM-EE-CCSD results and that previously published overestimated cross sections are a result of inconsistencies in the conversion of the TPA strengths to macroscopic units. TDDFT/CAM-B3LYP TPA strengths, on the other hand, are found to be 1.5 to 3 times smaller than the coupled-cluster reference for the molecular systems considered. The unsatisfactory performance of TDDFT/CAM-B3LYP can be linked to an underestimation of excited-state dipole moments predicted by TDDFT/CAM-B3LYP.
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