We report a time-dependent density functional based tight-binding (TD-DFTB) scheme for the calculation of UV/Vis spectra, explicitly taking into account the excitation of nuclear vibrations via the adiabatic Hessian Franck-Condon method with a harmonic approximation for the nuclear wavefunction. The theory of vibrationally resolved UV/Vis spectroscopy is first summarized from the viewpoint of TD-DFTB. The method is benchmarked against time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations for strongly dipole allowed excitations in various aromatic and polar molecules. Using the recent 3ob:freq parameter set of Elstner’s group, very good agreement with TD-DFT calculations using local functionals was achieved.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:21502 |
| Date | 19 June 2018 |
| Creators | Rüger, Robert, Niehaus, Thomas, van Lenthe, Erik, Heine, Thomas, Visscher, Lucas |
| Publisher | AIP Publishing |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 0021-9606, 184102 |
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