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To overcome the limitations of the traditional state-averaging approaches in excited state calculations, where one solves for and represents all states between the ground state and excited state of interest, we have investigated a number of…

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Quantum embedding schemes have the potential to significantly reduce the computational cost of first principles calculations, whilst maintaining accuracy, particularly for calculations of electronic excitations in complex systems. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-10 Joseph C. A. Prentice

We present a time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) based approach to compute the light-matter couplings between two different manifolds of excited states relative to a common ground state. These quantities are the necessary…

Obtaining the exciton dynamics of large photosynthetic complexes by using mixed quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) is computationally demanding. We propose a machine learning technique, multi-layer perceptrons, as a tool to…

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A combination of classical molecular dynamics (MM/MD) and quantum chemical calculations based on the density functional theory (DFT) was performed to describe conformational properties of diphenylethyne (DPE), methylated-DPE and poly para…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Behnaz Bagheri , Björn Baumeier , Mikko Karttunen

This paper presents the first implementation of a coupling between advanced wave function theories and molecular density functional theory (MDFT). This method enables the modeling of solvent effect into quantum mechanical (QM) calculations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Maxime Labat , Emmanuel Giner , Guillaume Jeanmairet

Almost all time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) calculations of excited states make use of the adiabatic approximation, which implies a frequency-independent exchange-correlation kernel that limits applications to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-08 Miquel Huix-Rotllant , Andrei Ipatov , Angel Rubio , Mark E. Casida

The Tamm-Dancoff Approximation (TDA) offers a computationally efficient alternative to full linear-response Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) for calculating electronic excited states, particularly in large molecular systems.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Muhammed A. Dada , Sarah Pak , Matthew N. Ward , Megan Simons , Daniel R. Nascimento

For the computation of excited states, the standard solutions of the Schroedinger equation, using higher roots of a secular equation in a finite N-dimensional function space, by the Hylleraas-Undheim and MacDonald theorem, have several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-09-24 Naoum C. Bacalis

We introduce the multistate iterative qubit coupled cluster (MS-iQCC) method, a quantum-inspired algorithm that runs efficiently on classical hardware and is designed to predict both ground and excited electronic states of molecules.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Robert A. Lang , Shashank G. Mehendale , Ilya G. Ryabinkin , Artur F. Izmaylov

Subsystem Density-Functional Theory (DFT) is an emerging technique for calculating the electronic structure of complex molecular and condensed phase systems. In this topical review, we focus on some recent advances in this field related to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alisa Krishtal , Debalina Sinha , Alessandro Genova , Michele Pavanello

Multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory (MC-PFDT) has previously been applied successfully to carry out ground-state and excited-state calculations. However, because it includes no interaction between electronic states, MC-PDFT…

State-specific electronic structure theory provides a route towards balanced excited-state wave functions by exploiting higher-energy stationary points of the electronic energy. Multiconfigurational wave function approximations can describe…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Antoine Marie , Hugh G. A. Burton

Multireference density functional theory (MR-DFT) has been a pivotal method for studying nuclear low-lying states and neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay. However, quantifying their theoretical uncertainties has been a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 X. Zhang , C. C. Wang , C. R. Ding , J. M. Yao

We combine recent advances in excited state variational principles, fast multi-Slater Jastrow methods, and selective configuration interaction to create multi-Slater Jastrow wave function approximations that are optimized for individual…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-19 Sergio D. Pineda Flores , Eric Neuscamman

The uniform electron gas (UEG) is a cornerstone of density-functional theory (DFT) and the foundation of the local-density approximation (LDA), one of the most successful approximations in DFT. In this work, we extend the concept of UEG by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Pierre-François Loos

We present a general approach to converge excited state solutions to any quantum chemistry orbital optimization process, without the risk of variational collapse. The resulting Square Gradient Minimization (SGM) approach only requires…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Diptarka Hait , Martin Head-Gordon

The potential of mean-field decomposition techniques in interpreting electronic transitions in molecules is explored, particularly, the usefulness of these for offering computational signatures of different classes of such excitations. When…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Janus J. Eriksen

Linear response time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), which builds upon configuration interaction singles (CIS) and TD-Hartree-Fock (TDHF), is the most widely used class of excited state quantum chemistry methods and is often…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Diptarka Hait , Adam Rettig , Martin Head-Gordon

The classic density-functional theory (DFT) formalism introduced by Hohenberg, Kohn, and Sham in the mid-1960s, is based upon the idea that the complicated N-electron wavefunction can be replaced with the mathematically simpler 1-electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. E. Casida , M. Huix-Rotllant