Molecular ionization energies and ground- and ionic-state properties using a non-Dyson electron propagator approach.

An earlier proposed propagator method for the treatment of molecular ionization is tested in first applications. The method referred to as the non-Dyson third-order algebraic-diagrammatic construction [nD-ADC(3)] approximation for the electron propagator represents a computationally promising alternative to the existing Dyson ADC(3) method. The advantage of the nD-ADC(3) scheme is that the (N+/-1)-electronic parts of the one-particle Green's function are decoupled from each other and the corresponding equations can be solved separately. For a test of the method the nD-ADC(3) results for the vertical ionization transitions in C(2)H(4), CO, CS, F(2), H(2)CO, H(2)O, HF, N(2), and Ne are compared with available experimental and theoretical data including results of full configuration interaction (FCI) and coupled cluster computations. The mean error of the nD-ADC(3) ionization energies relative to the experimental and FCI results is about 0.2 eV. The nD-ADC(3) method, scaling as n(5) with the number of orbitals, requires the solution of a relatively simple Hermitian eigenvalue problem. The method renders access to ground-state properties such as dipole moments. Moreover, also one-electron properties of (N+/-1) electron states can now be studied as a consequence of a specific intermediate-state representation (ISR) formulation of the nD-ADC approach. Corresponding second-order ISR equations are presented.