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The prediction of electronic structure for strongly correlated molecules represents a promising application for near-term quantum computers. Significant attention has been paid to ground state wavefunctions, but excited states of molecules…

We introduce natural transition geminals as a means to qualitatively understand a transition where double excitations are important. The first two $A_{1}$ singlet states of the CH cation are used as an initial example. We calculate these…

Density functional theory (DFT) is a widespread and effective tool in electronic structure calculations for ground-state electron systems. Its success has prompted exploration into the use of DFT for non-collective excited states. The delta…

Approximate full configuration interaction (FCI) calculations have recently become tractable for systems of unforeseen size thanks to stochastic and adaptive approximations to the exponentially scaling FCI problem. The result of an FCI…

Aiming at completing the sets of FCI-quality transition energies that we recently developed (\textit{J.~Chem.~Theory Comput.} \textbf{14} (2018) 4360--4379, \textit{ibid.}~\textbf{15} (2019) 1939--1956, and \textit{ibid.}~\textbf{16} (2020)…

Excited-state electronic structure in strongly correlated systems remains challenging due to the exponential scaling of the many-body Hilbert space and the difficulty of constructing systematically controlled active spaces. Building on the…

The Configuration Interaction (CI) method is applied to the calculation of the structures of a number of positron binding systems, including e+Be, e+Mg, e+Ca and e+Sr. These calculations were carried out in orbital spaces containing about…

Pursuing our efforts to define highly-accurate estimates of the relative energies of excited states in organic molecules, we investigate, with coupled-cluster methods including iterative triples (CC3 and CCSDT), the vertical excitation…

We present our computational implementation of the equation-of-motion (EOM) coupled-cluster (CC) singles, doubles, and triples (SDT) method for computing doubly ionized (DIP) and two-electron attached (DEA) states within Q-CHEM. These…

We describe our efforts of the past few years to create a large set of more than 500 highly-accurate vertical excitation energies of various natures ($\pi \to \pi^*$, $n \to \pi^*$, double excitation, Rydberg, singlet, doublet, triplet,…

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…

The extension of mixed quantum/classical theory (MQCT) to describe collisional energy transfer is developed for symmetric-top-rotor + linear-rotor system type and is applied to $ \rm ND_3 + \rm D_2 $. State-to-state transition cross…

We employ quantum Monte Carlo to obtain chemically accurate vertical and adiabatic excitation energies, and equilibrium excited-state structures for the small, yet challenging, formaldehyde and thioformaldehyde molecules. A key ingredient…

We discuss various ways to handle self-interaction corrections (SIC) to Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. To that end, we use a simple model of few particles in a finite number of states together with a simple zero-range…

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…

In quantum chemistry, obtaining a system's mean-field solution and incorporating electron correlation in a post Hartree-Fock (HF) manner comprise one of the standard protocols for ground-state calculations. In principle, this scheme can…

Typical density functional theory (DFT) and approximations thereto solve the many-electron ground state problem by working from a numerically efficient non-interacting Kohn-Sham reference system; and benefit from useful minimization…

In computational chemistry of molecular materials, strong static correlation effects appear when electronic states, often involving the ground state, become quasi-degenerate, as occurs, for example, in bond-breaking processes. Such…

For one-dimensional systems with delta-contact interactions, the convergence of the exact-diagonalization method is tested with a basis of harmonic oscillator eigenfunctions with frequency $\Omega$ optimized through the minimization of the…

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…