Sample directory: adf/AgI_asoexcit/
Calculation of the excitation energies of AgI including spin-orbit coupling in a perturbative way.
$ADFBIN/adf << eor Title [AgI] Atoms Ag .0000 .0000 2.5446 I .0000 .0000 0.0000 End relativistic scalar zora symmetry C(7v) integration 6.0 Excitations lowest 60 End SOPERT Basis Type TZ2P Core None End eor
ADF can not handle ATOM and linear symmetries in excitation calculations. Therefore a subsymmetry is used, in this case symmetry C(7v).
A relatively small TZ2P basis set is used, which is not sufficient for excitations to Rydberg-like orbitals, one needs more diffuse functions.
The key SOPERT is included in scalar relativistic ZORA calculations of excitation energies. First scalar relativistic TDDFT calculations are performed to determine the lowest 60 singlet-singlet and singlet-triplet excited states and the spin-orbit coupling operator is applied to these single-group excited states to obtain the excitation energies with spin-orbit coupling effects included.
