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A Parallel Iterative Method for Computing Molecular Absorption Spectra

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Peter Koval *
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D. Foerster
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Olivier Coulaud
DOI:10.1021/ct100280xdelete
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We describe a fast parallel iterative method for computing molecular absorption spectra within TDDFT linear response and using the LOAD method. We use a local basis of dominant products to parametrize the space of orbital products that occur in the LOAD approach. In this basis, the dynamic polarizability is computed iteratively within an appropriate Krylov subspace. The iterative procedure uses a matrix-free GMRES method to determine the (interacting) density response. The resulting code is about 1 order of magnitude faster than our previous full-matrix method. This acceleration makes the speed of our TDDFT code comparable with codes based on Casida's equation. The implementation of our method uses hybrid MPI and OpenMP parallelization in which load balancing and memory access are optimized. To validate our approach and to establish benchmarks, we compute spectra of large molecules on various types of parallel machines. The methods developed here are fairly general, and we believe they will find useful applications in molecular physics/chemistry, even for problems that are beyond TDDFT, such as organic semiconductors, particularly in photovoltaics.
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DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY
EXCITATION-ENERGIES
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Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation cover
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
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universite de bordeaux
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centre national de la recherche scientifique (cnrs)
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