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Excited electronic states of molecules and solids play a fundamental role in fields such as catalysis and electronics. In electronic structure calculations, excited states typically correspond to saddle points on the surface described by…

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…

The development of variational density functional theory approaches to excited electronic states is impeded by limitations of the commonly used self-consistent field (SCF) procedure. A method based on a direct optimization approach as well…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Gianluca Levi , Aleksei V. Ivanov , Hannes Jónsson

Density functional theory (DFT) based modeling of electronic excited states is of importance for investigation of the photophysical/photochemical properties and spectroscopic characterization of large systems. The widely used linear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Diptarka Hait , Martin Head-Gordon

Variational optimization of orbitals in time-independent density functional calculations of excited electronic states presents a significant challenge, as excited states typically correspond to saddle points on the electronic energy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Elli Selenius , Gianluca Levi

The performance of time-independent, orbital optimized calculations of excited states is assessed with respect to charge transfer excitations in organic molecules in comparison to the linear-response time-dependent density functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Elli Selenius , Alec Elías Sigurdarson , Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Gianluca Levi

Orbital-optimized density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as an alternative to time-dependent (TD) DFT capable of describing difficult excited states with significant electron density redistribution, such as charge-transfer, Rydberg,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Hanh D. M. Pham , Rustam Z. Khaliullin

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

Elucidation of the mechanism for optical spin initialization of point defects in solids in the context of quantum applications requires an accurate description of the excited electronic states involved. While variational density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-14 Aleksei V. Ivanov , Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Gianluca Levi , Hannes Jónsson

We propose a state-specific orbital optimization scheme for improving the accuracy of excited states of the electronic structure Hamiltonian for the use on near-term quantum computers, which can be combined with any overlap-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Guorui Zhu , Joel Bierman , Jianfeng Lu , Yingzhou Li

In the density functional (DF) theory of Kohn and Sham, the kinetic energy of the ground state of a system of noninteracting electrons in a general external field is calculated using a set of orbitals. Orbital free methods attempt to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeng-Da Chai , John D Weeks

We present a method for finding individual excited states' energy stationary points in complete active space self-consistent field theory that is compatible with standard optimization methods and highly effective at overcoming difficulties…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-12 Lan Nguyen Tran , Jacqueline A. R. Shea , Eric Neuscamman

The modified local spin density functional and the related local potential for excited states is tested by employing the ionization potential theorem. The functional is constructed by splitting $k$-space. Since its functional derivative…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 M. Hemanadhan , Md. Shamim , Manoj K. Harbola

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

Variational calculations of excited electronic states are carried out by finding saddle points on the surface that describes how the energy of the system varies as a function of the electronic degrees of freedom. This approach has several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Gianluca Levi , Hannes Jónsson

Simulations in the warm dense matter regime using finite temperature Kohn-Sham density functional theory (FT-KS-DFT), while frequently used, are computationally expensive due to the partial occupation of a very large number of high-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-04 Yael Cytter , Eran Rabani , Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer

We present a modification of the $\Delta$SCF method of calculating energies of excited states, in order to make it applicable to resonance calculations of molecules adsorbed on metal surfaces, where the molecular orbitals are highly…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-03-06 Jeppe Gavnholt , Thomas Olsen , Mads Engelund , Jakob Schiøtz

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

This chapter presents the development of a density functional theory (DFT)-based method for accurate, reliable treatment of various resonances in atoms. Many of these are known to be notorious for their strong correlation, proximity to more…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Amlan K. Roy

The energy minimization involved in density functional calculations of electronic systems can be carried out using an exponential transformation that preserves the orthonormality of the orbitals. The energy of the system is then represented…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Aleksei V. Ivanov , Elvar Ö. Jónsson , Tejs Vegge , Hannes Jónsson
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