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#1 Multiwfn and wavefunction analysis » NTOs for SF-TDA in ORCA » 2026-08-05 19:00:34

ucb-mgcf
Replies: 1

Hello,

I want to use Multiwfn to generate NTOs for SF-TDA states in ORCA.  The problem I'm having is that the singular values are all 0.  I figure this has something to do with it being SF-TDA as opposed to regular TDA; I've successfully used Multiwfn for the latter many times.  I'm following the same steps I use for regular TDA, should I be doing something different?

Here's an example output:

Summary of excited states:
State:    1    Exc. Energy:  -0.058 eV   Multi.: ?    MO pairs:   22280
State:    2    Exc. Energy:   0.019 eV   Multi.: ?    MO pairs:   20053
State:    3    Exc. Energy:   0.578 eV   Multi.: ?    MO pairs:   22215
State:    4    Exc. Energy:   1.765 eV   Multi.: ?    MO pairs:   18903
State:    5    Exc. Energy:   1.830 eV   Multi.: ?    MO pairs:   18054
State:    6    Exc. Energy:   1.926 eV   Multi.: ?    MO pairs:   16279
State:    7    Exc. Energy:   1.997 eV   Multi.: ?    MO pairs:   18846
State:    8    Exc. Energy:   2.207 eV   Multi.: ?    MO pairs:    9096

Perform the analysis for which excited state? e.g. 2
1
Loading configuration coefficients of excited state   1...
Sum of square of excitation coefficients:  0.999937
Negative of the sum of square of de-excitation coefficients:  0.000000
Sum of above two values:  0.999937
Deviation to expected normalization value (1.0) is  0.000063
Involved highest unoccupied alpha orbital:   141 (alpha HOMO+     0)
Involved highest unoccupied beta orbital:    815 (beta HOMO+    676)

The highest 10 eigenvalues of alpha NTO pairs:
    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000
    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000
Sum of all alpha eigenvalues:  0.000000

The highest 10 eigenvalues of beta NTO pairs:
    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000
    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000
Sum of all beta eigenvalues:  0.000000

Sum of all alpha and beta NTO eigenvalues:  0.000000

thanks!

#2 Re: Multiwfn and wavefunction analysis » reading in .wfn files produced by q-chem » 2023-04-30 21:51:47

Thanks!  It works now for both wfn files.  And as a happy side note, I wanted to let you know that I proceeded to use the same option choices to check the AIM charges for the larger complex using the new version and the version we had previously been using (3.7), and the result for the new version is more numerically accurate:

3.8dev:  Sum of above integrals:        236.00022435
3.7:  Sum of above integrals:        235.91120789

best regards

#3 Multiwfn and wavefunction analysis » reading in .wfn files produced by q-chem » 2023-04-29 21:42:25

ucb-mgcf
Replies: 3

Hi,

First, I want to say that I work at a computational facility at UC-Berkeley and several of our users use Multiwfn; it's a great program, and thank you for creating it.

We came across a problem with using .wfn files produced by q-chem.  I've isolated one example that works and one that doesn't, and I've determined that the problem is in parsing the 2nd line of the .wfn file.  Here are the 2nd lines of each of the files:

GAUSSIAN             34 MOL ORBITALS    176 PRIMITIVES        4 NUCLEI
GAUSSIAN             88 MOL ORBITALS    1410 PRIMITIVES       40 NUCLEI

I observed that the number of primitives begins at exactly the same character in each case.  I tried deleting one space to the left of the 1410 in the 2nd file, so that now all the words in the line are exactly aligned, and now both files are correctly read in to multiwfn.  So evidently multiwfn is expecting a fixed width input format for the components of this line.  I'm posting this in the forum so that this can either be fixed in multiwfn, or if you think the problem is instead that q-chem should be writing this line in fixed width format, let me know, and I'll pass that information on to q-chem.

thanks

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