Comparison of the polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities obtained from finite basis set and finite difference Hartree-Fock calculations for diatomic molecules

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Abstract
A comparison is made of the accuracy by which the electric dipole polarizability αzz and hyperpolarizability βzzz can be calculated by using the finite basis set approach (the algebraic approximation) and finite difference method in calculations employing the Hartree-Fock model. The numerical and algebraic methods were tested on the ground states of H2, LiH, BH and FH molecules at their respective experimental equilibrium geometries. For the FH molecule at its experimental equilibrium geometry, a sequence of distributed universal even-tempered basis sets have been used to explore the convergence pattern of the total energy, dipole moment and polarizabilities. The comparison of finite difference and finite basis set methods is extended to geometries for which the nuclear separation, RFH, lies in the range 1.5-2.2 b. The methods give consistent results to within 1% or better. In the case of the FH molecule the dependence of truncation errors of the total energy, dipole moment and polarizabilities on the geometry have been studied and are shown to be negligible.