A general purpose Fortran 90 electronic structure program for conjugated systems using Pariser–Parr–Pople model Original Research Article

Pariser–Parr–Pople (P-P-P) model Hamiltonian has been used extensively over the years to perform calculations of electronic structure and optical properties of π-conjugated systems successfully. In spite of tremendous successes of ab initio theory of electronic structure of large systems, the P-P-P model continues to be a popular one because of a recent resurgence in interest in the physics of π-conjugated polymers, fullerenes and other carbon-based materials. In this paper, we describe a Fortran 90 computer program developed by us, which uses P-P-P model Hamiltonian to not only solve Hartree–Fock (HF) equation for closed- and open-shell systems, but also for performing correlation calculations at the level of single configuration interactions (SCI) for molecular systems. Moreover, the code is capable of computing linear optical absorption spectrum at various levels, such as, tight-binding (TB) Hückel model, HF, SCI, and also of calculating the band structure using the Hückel model. The code also allows the user to solve the HF equation in the presence of finite external electric field, thus, permitting calculations of quantities such as static polarizabilities and electro-absorption spectra. Additionally, it can perform transformation of P-P-P model Hamiltonian from the atomic orbital (AO) representation (also called site representation) to the molecular orbital (MO) one, so that the transformed matrix elements can be used for high level post-HF calculations, such as, full CI (FCI), quadruple CI (QCI), and multi-reference singles–doubles CI (MRSDCI). We demonstrate the capabilities of our code by performing calculations of various properties on conjugated systems such as trans-polyacetylene (t-PA), poly-para-phenylene (PPP), poly-para-phenylene-vinylene (PPV), oligo-acenes, and graphene nanodisks.