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The analytic energy gradients with respect to nuclear motion are derived for natural orbital functional (NOF) theory. The resulting equations do not require to resort to linear-response theory, so the computation of NOF energy gradients is…
Analytic energy gradients with respect to nuclear motion are derived for non-singlet compounds in the natural orbital functional theory. We exploit the formulation for multiplets in order to obtain a simple formula valid for any…
In the present article, we show how to formulate the partially contracted n-electron valence second order perturbation theory (NEVPT2) energies in the atomic and active molecular orbital basis by employing the Laplace transformation of…
The computational investigation of photochemical processes often entails the calculation of excited state geometries, energies, and energy gradients. The nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) approach treats specified nuclei, typically protons,…
The current work presents a natural orbital functional (NOF) for electronic systems with any spin value independent of the external potential being considered, that is, a global NOF (GNOF). It is based on a new two-index reconstruction of…
We introduce natural atomic orbitals as the local projector to define the correlated subspace for DFT + DMFT (density functional theory plus dynamical mean-field theory) calculation. The natural atomic orbitals are found to be stably…
The original formulation (Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 063002, 2017) of the natural orbital functional - second-order M{\o}ller-Plesset (NOF-MP2) method is based on the MP2 that uses the canonical Hartree-Fock molecular orbitals. The current work…
The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory is expressed as a functional of the electronic density and the Kohn-Sham orbitals. An alternative to Kohn-Sham theory is to express the energy as a functional of the…
The natural orbital functional theory (NOFT) has emerged as an alternative formalism to both density functional (DF) and wavefunction methods. In NOFT, the electronic structure is described in terms of the natural orbitals (NOs) and their…
Analytic first and second derivatives of the energy are developed for the fragment molecular orbital method interfaced with molecular mechanics in the electrostatic embedding scheme at the level of Hartree-Fock and density functional…
This paper aims at introducing the formal foundations of the application of reduced density-matrix theory and Green's function theory to the analysis of molecular electronic transitions. For this sake, their mechanics, applied to specific…
We introduce an energy functional for ground-state electronic structure calculations. Its variables are the natural spin-orbitals of singlet many-body wave functions and their joint occupation probabilities deriving from controlled…
This chapter provides a comprehensive review of fundamental concepts related to approximate natural orbital functionals (NOFs), emphasizing their significance in quantum chemistry and physics. Focusing on fermions, the discussion excludes…
Occupation numbers of natural orbitals capture the physics of strong electron correlations in momentum space. A Natural Orbital Density Functional Theory based on the antisymmetrized geminal product provides these occupation numbers and the…
We investigate the suitability of natural orbitals as a basis for describing many-body excitations. We analyze to which extend the natural orbitals describe both bound as well as ionized excited states and show that depending on the…
We introduce a novel energy functional for ground-state electronic-structure calculations. Its fundamental variables are the natural spin-orbitals of the implied singlet many-body wave function and their joint occupation probabilities. The…
The possibility to use functionals of occupation numbers and natural orbitals for interacting fermions is discussed as an alternative to multi-reference energy density functional method. An illustration based on the two-level Lipkin model…
Nuclear quantum effects are important in a variety of chemical and biological processes. The constrained nuclear-electronic orbital density functional theory (cNEO-DFT) has been developed to include nuclear quantum effects in energy…
This work presents the formalism and implementation of excited state nuclear forces within density functional linear response theory (TDDFT) using a plane wave basis set. An implicit differentiation technique is developed for computing…
Density-potential functional theory (DPFT) is an alternative formulation of orbital-free density functional theory that may be suitable for modeling the electronic structure of large systems. To date, DPFT has been applied mainly to quantum…