Posted by Vérot on March 20, 2015 at 09:29:33:
I'm doing some calculations for nickelocene and I am computing the zero field splitting with the 45 states generated by the d8 in the 3d orbitals.
With a CAS(8,10) and at the CASSCF or CASPT2 level, everything works fine but when I enlarge the CAS space to a CAS (16,9) I have teh following message from RASSI :
Nr of states: 25
State: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
JobIph: 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 7
Root nr: 1 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 1
State: 21 22 23 24 25
JobIph: 7 7 8 8 8
Root nr: 2 3 1 2 3
RASSI CANNOT CONTINUE. THE PROBLEM AT HAND
IS PROBABLY NOT SOLUBLE. THE TWO ORBITAL
SPACES ARE TOO DISSIMILAR.
LU PARTITIONING IS TROUBLESOME. DIAGONAL
ELEMENT NR. 13 IS TOO SMALL:
IN MATRIX CXA IT IS 1.00000000000000
IN MATRIX CYB IT IS 1.596537582592096E-004
EVEN AFTER OPTIMAL PIVOT-TRANSFORMATION.
I checked my orbitals, it seems ok (the d orbitals are in the CAS) but I don't know how to solve this problem. It points to the element 13, is it because it is my thirteenth state (among the 25) which is causing trouble ?
If anyone has any hint on how to solve this problem, I would be truly grateful.