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The semi-empirical Pariser-Parr-Pople (PPP) Hamiltonian is reviewed for its ability to provide a minimal model of the chemistry of conjugated $\pi$-electron systems, and its current applications and limitations are discussed. From its…
Pariser-Parr-Pople (P-P-P) model Hamiltonian has been used extensively over the years to perform calculations of electronic structure and optical properties of $\pi$-conjugated systems successfully. In spite of tremendous successes of…
An excitonic method proper to study conjugated oligomers and polymers is described and its applicability tested on the ground state and first excited states of trans-polyacetylene, taken as a model. From the Pariser-Parr-Pople Hamiltonian,…
The electronic and optical properties of various polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with lower symmetry, namely, benzo[ghi]perylene (C$_{22}$H$_{12}$), benzo[a]coronene (C$_{28}$H$_{14}$), naphtho[2,3a]coronene (C$_{32}$H$_{16}$),…
The pair coupled cluster doubles (pCCD) method (where the excitation manifold is restricted to electron pairs) has a series of interesting features. Among others, it provides ground-state energies very close to what is obtained with…
In this paper, we perform large-scale electron-correlated calculations of optoelectronic properties of rectangular graphene-like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules. Theoretical methodology employed in this work is based upon…
Pariser-Parr-Pople (P-P-P) model Hamiltonian is employed frequently to study the electronic structure and optical properties of $\pi$-conjugated systems. In this paper we describe a Fortran 90 computer program which uses the P-P-P model…
A systematic method for determining correlated wavefunctions of extended systems in the ground and excited states is presented. It allows to fully exploit the power of quantum-chemical programs designed for correlation calculations of…
In recent years Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been studied for their electronic properties as they are viewed as nanodots of graphene. They have also been of interest as functional molecules for applications such as light…
Wavefunctions restricted to electron pair states are promising models for strongly-correlated systems. Specifically, the pair Coupled Cluster Doubles (pCCD) ansatz allows us to accurately describe bond dissociation processes and…
In light of the recent discrepancies reported between fixed node diffusion Monte Carlo and local natural orbital coupled cluster with single, double and perturbative triples (CCSD(T)) methodologies for non-covalent interactions in large…
We introduce affordable computational strategies for calculating orbital and pair-orbital energies in atomic and molecular systems. Our methods are based on the pair Coupled Cluster Doubles (pCCD) ansatz and its orbital-optimized variant.…
In this paper we present a computational study of linear optical absorption in phenacene class of polyaromatic hydrocarbons. For the purpose, we have employed a correlated-electron methodology based upon configuration-interaction (CI)…
The accurate and efficient description of strongly correlated systems remains an important challenge for computational methods. Doubly occupied configuration interaction (DOCI), in which all electrons are paired and no correlations which…
The Extended Hubbard Hamiltonian used by the Condensed Matter community is nothing but a simplified version of the Pariser, Parr and Pople Hamiltonian, well established in the Quantum Chemistry community as a powerful tool to describe the…
Quantum embedding methods have recently developed significantly to model large molecular structures. This work proposes a novel wave function theory in density functional theory (WTF-in-DFT) embedding scheme based on pair-coupled cluster…
Doubly occupied configuration interaction (DOCI) with optimized orbitals often accurately describes strong correlations while working in a Hilbert space much smaller than that needed for full configuration interaction. However, the scaling…
We study a simple model system for the conjugated $\pi$-bonds in benzene, the Pariser-Parr-Pople (PPP) model, within the parquet approximation (PA), exemplifying the prospects of the PA for molecules. Advantages of the PA are the polynomial…
In single-reference coupled-cluster (CC) methods, one has to solve a set of non-linear polynomial equations in order to determine the so-called amplitudes which are then used to compute the energy and other properties. Although it is of…
Starting from the $\pi$-electron Pariser-Parr-Pople (PPP) Hamiltonian which includes both strong electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions, we propose some strongly correlated wave functions of increasing quality for the ground…