Near Chemical Accuracy From Size-Consistent Padé Resummed Møller-Plesset Perturbation Theory
Abstract
Padé resummation of the correlation energy from Møller-Plesset (MP) perturbation theory is not size-consistent and is therefore seldom used. We present an orbital-based Padé resummation of the MP2 and MP3 self-energy operators, whose trace yields a size-consistent correlation energy. We find that damping the third-order same-spin contribution leads to substantially increased accuracy, with the resulting same-spin damped orbital Padé resummed (SSD-OPMP3) approach attaining near-chemical accuracy (mean absolute error ∼ 1 kcal/mol) for total atomization energies of non-multireference molecules in the W4-17 dataset against the gold standard CCSD(T) method. Excellent performance surpassing CCSD is also obtained for other molecular datasets such as those containing barrier heights, noncovalent interactions, dipole moments, static polarizabilities, and transition-metal chemistry. SSD-OPMP3 is thus a highly accurate electronic structure method with the same noniterative O(N6) cost as MP3, filling a gap in the cost/accuracy hierarchy of wavefunction methods.
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BibTeX
@misc{bystrom2026near,
title = {{Near Chemical Accuracy From Size-Consistent Padé Resummed Møller-Plesset Perturbation Theory}},
author = {Kyle Bystrom and Timothy C. Berkelbach and Diptarka Hait},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.25330},
eprint = {2609.25330},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25330},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Near Chemical Accuracy From Size-Consistent Padé Resummed Møller-Plesset Perturbation Theory
AU - Kyle Bystrom
AU - Timothy C. Berkelbach
AU - Diptarka Hait
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/22
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.25330
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25330
AB - Padé resummation of the correlation energy from Møller-Plesset (MP) perturbation theory is not size-consistent and is therefore seldom used. We present an orbital-based Padé resummation of the MP2 and MP3 self-energy operators, whose trace yields a size-consistent correlation energy. We find that damping the third-order same-spin contribution leads to substantially increased accuracy, with the resulting same-spin damped orbital Padé resummed (SSD-OPMP3) approach attaining near-chemical accuracy (mean absolute error ∼ 1 kcal/mol) for total atomization energies of non-multireference molecules in the W4-17 dataset against the gold standard CCSD(T) method. Excellent performance surpassing CCSD is also obtained for other molecular datasets such as those containing barrier heights, noncovalent interactions, dipole moments, static polarizabilities, and transition-metal chemistry. SSD-OPMP3 is thus a highly accurate electronic structure method with the same noniterative O(N^6) cost as MP3, filling a gap in the cost/accuracy hierarchy of wavefunction methods.
ER -