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Abstract
Accurate and affordable methods to characterize the electronic structure of solids are important for targeted materials design. Embedding-based methods provide an appealing balance in the trade-off between cost and accuracy - particularly when studying localized phenomena. Here, we use the density matrix embedding theory (DMET) algorithm to study the electronic excitations in solid-state defects with a restricted open-shell Hartree--Fock (ROHF) bath and multireference impurity solvers, specifically, complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) and n-electron valence state second-order perturbation theory (NEVPT2). We apply the method to investigate an oxygen vacancy (OV) on a MgO(100) surface and find absolute deviations within 0.05 eV between DMET using the CASSCF/NEVPT2 solver, denoted as CAS-DMET/NEVPT2-DMET, and the non-embedded CASSCF/NEVPT2 approach. Next, we establish the practicality of DMET by extending it to larger supercells for the OV defect and a neutral silicon-vacancy in diamond where the use of non-embedded CASSCF/NEVPT2 is extremely expensive.
Supplementary materials
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Supplementary Information for "Excited States of Crystalline Point Defects with Multireference Density Matrix Embedding Theory"
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This is the supplementary information for the original manuscript. Here are the contents:
Computational details; A discussion on the better performance of the ROHF bath; Excitation energies for OV on a MgO(100) surface using a 2,2 active space; Total energies for supercells considered for OV in Mg(100) surface; Convergence of excitation energies in-plane; Excitation energies using the SiC6 impurity cluster in the silicon-vacancy defect; Total energies for the cluster calculations for the silicon-vacancy defect; Total Energies for supercells considered in the silicon-vacancy defect; Active spaces explored within this work.
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