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We introduce a family of all-electron Gaussian basis sets, augmented MOLOPT, optimized for excited-state calculations on large molecules. We generate these basis sets by augmenting existing STO-3G, STO-6G, and MOLOPT basis sets optimized…

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Simulation of materials at the atomistic level is an important tool in studying microscopic structure and processes. The atomic interactions necessary for the simulation are correctly described by Quantum Mechanics. However, the…

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Strong magnetic fields such as those found on white dwarfs have significant effects on the electronic structure of atoms and molecules. However, the vast majority of molecular studies in the literature in such fields are carried out with…

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A conservative constraint on the Einstein Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) can be obtained under the assumption that the observed time delay between correlated particles from astronomical sources is dominated by the gravitational fields…

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The numerically exact evaluation of the van der Waals interaction, also known as Casimir interaction when including retardation effects, constitutes a challenging task. We present a new approach based on the plane-wave basis and demonstrate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-13 Benjamin Spreng , Paulo A. Maia Neto , Gert-Ludwig Ingold

Gausslets are one of the few basis constructions for electronic structure that combine locality, orthonormality, variable resolution, and an accurate diagonal approximation for the electron-electron interaction, but the original…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Steven R. White

Despite the fact that most quantum chemistry basis sets are designed for accurately modelling valence chemistry, these general-purpose basis sets continue to be widely used to model core-dependent properties. Core-specialised basis sets are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Robbie T. Ireland , Laura K. McKemmish

The calculation of quasi-particle spectra based on the GW approximation is extended to systems of hundreds of atoms, thus expanding the size range of current approaches by more than one order of magnitude. This is achieved through an…

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Many relevant applications in gravitational wave physics share a significant common problem: the seven-dimensional parameter space of gravitational waveforms from precessing compact binary inspirals and coalescences is large enough to…

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Wave packet molecular dynamics (WPMD) has recently received a lot of attention as a computationally fast tool to study dynamical processes in warm dense matter beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. These techniques, typically, employ…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 William A. Angermeier , Thomas G. White

Although the GW approximation is recognized as one of the most accurate theories for predicting materials excited states properties, scaling up conventional GW calculations for large systems remains a major challenge. We present a powerful…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Weiwei Gao , Weiyi Xia , Xiang Gao , Peihong Zhang

The $GW$ approach of many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) has become a common tool for calculating the electronic structure of materials. However, with increasing number of published results, discrepancies between the values obtained by…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-03 Dmitrii Nabok , Andris Gulans , Claudia Draxl

We present a tight-binding based GW approach for the calculation of quasiparticle energy levels in confined systems such as molecules. Key quantities in the GW formalism like the microscopic dielectric function or the screened Coulomb…

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The direct random-phase approximation (dRPA) is used to calculate and compare atomization energies for the HEAT set and 10 selected molecules of the G2-1 set using both plane waves and Gaussian-type orbitals. We describe detailed procedures…

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Since in periodic systems, a given element may be present in different spatial arrangements displaying vastly different physical and chemical properties, an elemental basis set that is independent of physical properties of materials may…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Yanbing Zhou , Emanuel Gull , Dominika Zgid

This work studies machine learning for electron density prediction, which is fundamental for understanding chemical systems and density functional theory (DFT) simulations. To this end, we introduce the Gaussian plane-wave neural operator…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Seongsu Kim , Sungsoo Ahn

Using many-body perturbation theory within the $G_0W_0$ approximation, we explore routes for computing the ionization potential (IP), electron affinity (EA), and fundamental gap of three gas-phase molecules -- benzene, thiophene, and (1,4)…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-10 Sahar Sharifzadeh , Isaac Tamblyn , Peter Doak , Pierre T. Darancet , Jeffrey B. Neaton

Atomic basis sets are widely employed within quantum mechanics based simulations of matter. We introduce a machine learning model that adapts the basis set to the local chemical environment of each atom, prior to the start of self…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Danish Khan , Maximilian L. Ach , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

We report an all-electron, atomic orbital (AO) based, two-component (2C) implementation of the $GW$ approximation (GWA) for closed-shell molecules. Our algorithm is based on the space-time formulation of the GWA and uses analytical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Arno Förster , Erik van Lenthe , Edoardo Spadetto , Lucas Visscher