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Re: state-averaged restricted active space SCF

Michal Krompiec
michal.krompiec@merckgroup.com


It seems that it is possible with GUGA. SO this is my attempt so far:
My molecule has 408 electrons. I want to freeze the lowest 200 orbitals, and do a SA4-RASSCF(8,20) with singlet excitations only (step B from the Truhlar group paper). But the calculation crashes with an error which doesn’t explain much (see below).
I tried SA4-RASSCF(8,16) with the same effect. I would be very grateful for any advice.
This is my input:
$contrl icut=12
SCFTYP=MCSCF  RUNTYP=ENERGY MAXIT=600
COORD=UNIQUE D5=.TRUE.
UNITS=ANGS   wide=.t. $END
$SYSTEM MWORDS=200 TIMLIM=60000  aoints=dist $END
$BASIS EXTFIL=.t. GBASIS=cc-pvtz $END
$SCF SOSCF=.f. DIIS=.t. DIRSCF=.t. MAXDII=600 NPUNCH=2
FDIFF=.f. NCONV=7 $END
$TRANS MPTRAN=2 DIRTRF=.T. AOINTS=DIST ALTPAR=.T. MODE=112 $END
$ciinp castrf=.t. $end
$INTGRL QFMM=.f. SCHWRZ=.TRUE. $END
$DRT  group=C1 fors=.f.
foci=.f. soci=.f. iexcit=1
nmcc=200 ndoc=4 nval=20 next=0
naos=0 nbos=0 nalp=0 $END
$GUGDIA nstate=4 $END
$GUGDM2 wstate(1)=0.25,0.25,0.25,0.25 $end
$GUGEM CUTOFF=1.0D-20 dirci=.f. pack2=.t. $END
$GUGDIA CVGTOL=1.0D-7 $END
$GUGDM2 CUTOFF=1.0D-15 $END
$MCSCF cistep=guga ACURCY=1D-7 ENGTOL=1.0D-12 FORS=.FALSE. $END
$guess guess=moread norb=2200 $end

And this is the end of the output file:
  ACTIVE= A     A     A     A     A     A     A     A     A     A
          DOC   DOC   DOC   DOC   VAL   VAL   VAL   VAL   VAL   VAL
  ACTIVE= A     A     A     A     A     A     A     A     A     A
          VAL   VAL   VAL   VAL   VAL   VAL   VAL   VAL   VAL   VAL

MOLECULAR CHARGE          =    0
NUMBER OF ALPHA ELECTRONS =  204
NUMBER OF  BETA ELECTRONS =  204

THE ELECTRONIC STATE IS  1-A

THE DISTINCT ROW TABLE HAS        40 ROWS.
THE WAVEFUNCTION  CONTAINS        65 WALKS (CSF-S).

TOTAL NUMBER OF INTEGRALS =      24645
NUMBER OF INTEGRALS/GROUP =      20000
NUMBER OF INTEGRAL GROUPS =          2
MAXIMUM RECORD SIZES ARE      8225 FOR UNIT 11        65 FOR UNIT 12
                             20000 FOR UNIT 15     22501 FOR UNIT 16
...... END OF -DRT- GENERATION ......

                        TIMING STATISTICS ON RANK 0:
CPU        TIME:   STEP =      0.72 ,  TOTAL =       49.6 SECONDS (    0.8 MIN)
WALL CLOCK TIME:   STEP =      0.73 ,  TOTAL =       45.6 SECONDS (    0.8 MIN)
CPU UTILIZATION:   STEP =     98.78%,  TOTAL =     108.87%
OPENING FILE DAFL30 WITH       81 LOGICAL RECORDS OF 5456896 WORDS
DAFL30 WILL CONTAIN A MAXIMUM OF    6906384 PHYSICAL RECORDS
EACH PHYSICAL RECORD WILL CONTAIN      64   WORDS


EVALUATING EXCHANGE INTEGRALS FOR DIRECT INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATION
SCHWARZ INEQUALITY OVERHEAD:    937970 INTEGRALS, CPU TIME=        0.18

         ------------------------------
         CASSCF INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATION
         ------------------------------
AO INTEGRALS WILL BE CALCULATED IN DIRECT MODE...

Fatal error in CASTRF, error code =        -1

                        TIMING STATISTICS ON RANK 0:
CPU        TIME:   STEP =      4.70 ,  TOTAL =       54.3 SECONDS (    0.9 MIN)
WALL CLOCK TIME:   STEP =      4.71 ,  TOTAL =       50.3 SECONDS (    0.8 MIN)
CPU UTILIZATION:   STEP =     99.80%,  TOTAL =     108.02%

   24564883 WORDS OF    DYNAMIC MEMORY USED
   87883324 BYTES OF    HEAP MEMORY    USED,      414110 BYTES REMAIN IN USE

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On Thu Mar 15 '18 2:16pm, Michal Krompiec wrote
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>Hello,
>is it possible to do a SA RAS-SCF MCSCF in Firefly? I would like to restrict the wavefunction to single excitations only (so esstentially, it would be a CIS MCSCF).
>I'd like to reproduce results of this paper from Truhlar's group: DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00032 (Automatic Selection of an Active Space for Calculating Electronic Excitation Spectra by MS-CASPT2 or MC-PDFT), step B is (for a closed-shell ground state) a state-averaged CIS-MCSCF.

>Thanks,

>Michal


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