CFOUR_ANHARMONIC

Specifies treatment of anharmonic effects by calculating cubic and/or quartic force fields. VIBROT (=3) requests calculation of only those cubic constants of the form ϕnij, where n is a totally symmetric coordinate. These are sufficient to determine the vibration-rotation interaction constants needed to calculate vibrational corrections to rotational constants, but are not sufficient to generate the corresponding cubic constants of isotopologs that have a lower point-group symmetry (i.e. HOD isotopolog of water). VPT2 (=1, note that the old value CUBIC can be still used and is equivalent to VPT2) generates all cubic constants and all quartic constants apart from those of the form ϕijkl, which is enough for: 1) generation of cubic constants of isotopologs (see manual entries associated with anharmonic calculations for an example); 2) calculation of vibrational energy levels with VPT2. This keyword also directs the program to analyze resonances and calculate intensities of one- and two-quantum transitions. FULLQUARTIC (=2) (not part of the public release) is largely self-explanatory; it directs the program to calculate all quartic constants. This is sufficient (but this has not been implemented) to generate the full quartic force field of all isotopologs.

  • Type: string

  • Possible Values: CUBIC, VPT2, FULLQUARTIC, VIBROT, OFF

  • Default: OFF