Real-time propagation of adaptive sampling selected configuration interaction wave functions

Abstract

We have developed a new time propagation method, time-dependent adaptive sampling configuration interaction (TD-ASCI), to describe the dynamics of a strongly correlated system. We employ the short iterative Lanczos method as the time-integrator, which provides a unitary, norm-conserving, and stable long-time propagation scheme. We used the TD-ASCI method to evaluate the time-domain correlation functions of molecular systems. The accuracy of the correlation function was assessed by Fourier transforming into the frequency domain to compute the dipole-allowed absorption spectra. The Fourier transform (FT) has been carried out with a short-time signal of the correlation function to reduce the computation time, using an efficient alternative FT scheme based on the ESPRIT signal processing algorithm. We have applied the TD-ASCI method to prototypical strongly correlated molecular systems and compared the absorption spectra to spectra evaluated using the equation of motion coupled cluster method with a truncation at the singles, doubles, and triples level.