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We present a spin-dependent localized Hartree-Fock (SLHF) density-functional approach for the treatment of the inner-shell excited-state calculation of atomic systems. In this approach, the electron spin-orbitals in an electronic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhongyuan Zhou , Shih-I Chu

Solving excited states is a challenging task for interacting systems. For one-dimensional critical systems, however, excited states can be directly accessed from the eigenvectors of the local effective Hamiltonian that is constructed from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-28 Denise Cocchiarella , Mingru Yang , Yueshui Zhang , Mari Carmen Bañuls , Hong-Hao Tu , Yuhan Liu

Herein, we present a new method to efficiently calculate electronically excited states in large molecular assemblies, consisting of hundreds of molecules. For this purpose, we combine the long-range corrected tight-binding…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Richard Einsele , Joscha Hoche , Roland Mitric

Calculations of excited states in Green's function formalism often invoke the diagonal approximation, in which the quasiparticle states are taken from a mean-field calculation. Here, we extend the stochastic approaches applied in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Annabelle Canestraight , Xiaohe Lei , Khaled Ibrahim , Vojtech Vlcek

We reexamine $\Delta$CCSD, a state-specific coupled-cluster (CC) with single and double excitations (CCSD) approach that targets excited states through the utilization of non-Aufbau determinants. This methodology is particularly efficient…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Yann Damour , Anthony Scemama , Denis Jacquemin , Fábris Kossoski , Pierre-François Loos

Density functional theory (DFT) has greatly expanded our ability to affordably compute and understand electronic ground states, by replacing intractable {\em ab initio} calculations by models based on paradigmatic physics from high- and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Tim Gould , Derk P. Kooi , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Stefano Pittalis

Quantum--Mechanical methods that are both computationally fast and accurate are not yet available for electronic excitations having charge transfer character. In this work, we present a significant step forward towards this goal for those…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Michele Pavanello , Troy Van Voorhis , Lucas Visscher , Johannes Neugebauer

Variational excited-state density functional theory (DFT) enables the calculation of excited states at a cost comparable to ground-state calculations, but single-configuration approaches often suffer from spin contamination. We implement…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Michael J. Sahre , Marco Romanelli , Martijn Marsman , Leticia González , Georg Kresse

We investigate an extension of excited state mean-field theory in which the energy expression is augmented with density functional components in an effort to include the effects of weak electron correlations. The approach remains…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Luning Zhao , Eric Neuscamman

We extend our hybrid linear-method/accelerated-descent variational Monte Carlo optimization approach to excited states and investigate its efficacy in double excitations. In addition to showing a superior statistical efficiency when…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 Leon Otis , Isaac M. Craig , Eric Neuscamman

The electronic structure of the ICl+ molecular ion is investigated by using high-level multireference configuration interaction (MRCI) method. To improve computational accuracy, Davidson corrections, spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Rui Li , Ronglong Dou , Ting Gao , Qinan Li , Chaoqun Song

Stochastic and mixed stochastic-deterministic density functional theory (DFT) are promising new approaches for the calculation of the equation-of-state and transport properties in materials under extreme conditions. In the intermediate warm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Vidushi Sharma , Lee A. Collins , Alexander J. White

Localized molecular orbitals are often used for the analysis of chemical bonds, but they can also serve to efficiently and comprehensibly compute linear response properties. While conventional canonical molecular orbitals provide an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Souloke Sen , Bruno Senjean , Lucas Visscher

Density functional calculations of Rydberg excited states up to high energy are carried out for several molecules using an approach where the orbitals are variationally optimized by converging on saddle points on the electronic energy…

Calculations of the lowest valence {\pi}* as well as the 3s and higher energy 3p{\sigma} Rydberg excited states of the CO2 molecule are carried out using density functionals with variational optimization of the orbitals, an approach…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Darío Barreiro-Lage , Gianluca Levi , Hannes Jonssón , Thanja Lamberts

The density functional theory (DFT) in electronic structure calculations can be formulated as either a nonlinear eigenvalue or direct minimization problem. The most widely used approach for solving the former is the so-called…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-08-14 Xin Zhang , Jinwei Zhu , Zaiwen Wen , Aihui Zhou

Within the evolving domain of quantum computational chemistry, the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) has been developed to explore not only the ground state but also the excited states of molecules. In this study, we compare the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 I-Chi Chen , Nouhaila Innan , Suman Kumar Roy , Jason Saroni

We present a protocol for computing core-ionisation energies for molecules, which is essential for reproducing X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy experiments. The electronic structure of both the ground state and the core-ionised states are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Niklas Göllmann , Matthew R. Ludwig , Peter Wind , Laura Ratcliff , Luca Frediani

Current-spin density functional theory (CSDFT) provides a framework to describe interacting many-electron systems in a magnetic field which couples to both spin- and orbital-degrees of freedom. Unlike in usual (spin-) density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Pittalis , S. Kurth , N. Helbig , E. K. U. Gross

Building on our recent study [https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02052, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 8780 (2023)], we explore the generalization of the ground-state Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism of density-functional theory (DFT) to the (singlet)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Pierre-François Loos , Sara Giarrusso