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ku0044

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Registered: 2020-07-08

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Calculating the Excited State Energies

Hello.

First of all, I want to thank you for making a great program. It was very helpful in my research works.
I am really appreciative of you, sir.

Now, I am trying to analyze some excited states of organic materials.
I wonder whether the multiwfn program can show excited state energies or not.
I would like to calculate some excited energies of singlets and triplets.
My questions are that

1. How can I get the vertical transition energy from the ground state to excited states (S1, T1, ...)?
2. How can I get the adiabatic transition energy from the ground state to excited states?

I will wait for your reply.
Thank you.

sobereva

Tian Lu (Multiwfn developer)

From: Beijing

Registered: 2017-09-11

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Re: Calculating the Excited State Energies

Hello,

Vertical excitation energies can be directly loaded from output file of your quantum chemistry program. If you are using Gaussian, ORCA, sTDA, Multiwfn is also able to directly print all excitation energies. For example, boot up Multiwfn and input:
examples\excit\4-nitroaniline.out // Output file of TDDFT task of Gaussian
11 // Plot spectrum
3 // UV-Vis
-1 // Show transition data

Now you can see

Index Excit.energy(eV nm 1000 cm^-1) Oscil.str 1 4.05570 305.70358 32.71143 0.00000 2 4.27620 289.94013 34.48988 0.33720 3 4.58460 270.43624 36.97730 0.00010

Since the geometry used in this calculation is the optimized ground state geometry, therefore these excitation energies correspond to vertical excitation energies.

If you need to obtain adiabatic excitation energy, you should optimize both ground state and excited state. The difference between the excited state energy at optimized excited state geometry and the ground state energy at optimized ground state geometry is simply adiabatic excitation energy.

ku0044

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Registered: 2020-07-08

Posts: 3

Re: Calculating the Excited State Energies

Thank you, sir.

It was so helpful for me.

I have an additional question.
I understood the way to calculate the vertical transition energies.
My question is that

Which function should I use to analyze the energy difference between ground and excited state in an adiabatic way?
I mean the way to compare the two energy states in the multiwfn program.

Thank you for your kindness.

sobereva

Tian Lu (Multiwfn developer)

From: Beijing

Registered: 2017-09-11

Posts: 1,758

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Re: Calculating the Excited State Energies

Multiwfn is able to analyze transition property and characterize the nature, however the analyses are not directly related to excitation energies.