The Cotton-Mouton effect is theoretically investigated
for a selected
set of molecules by using a novel computational methodology based
on algebraic diagrammatic construction (ADC) schemes in the intermediate
state representation (ISR) formulation. Therefore, the electronic
contributions to the frequency-dependent polarizabilities and, for
the first time, to the magnetizabilities as well as mixed electric
and magnetic hypermagnetizabilities have been computed in the ADC/ISR
framework. In addition to calculation of the Cotton-Mouton constant
and the birefringence, the gauge origin dependence of the computed
tensors and the applied methodology are thoroughly investigated. The
new ADC/ISR methodology, employing the recently presented package, is applied to a test set of Ne and
small molecules (H2, HF, O2, CO2,
and benzene) and compared to data from the experiment as well as other ab initio methods. The presented theoretical ab
initio ADC/ISR approach is a substantial extension of the
available computational methods for the investigation of complex nonlinear
properties, however, with a gauge origin dependence inherent to the
method that decreases with increasing perturbation order.