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We introduce a GPU-accelerated implementation of time-dependent density functional theory with the minimal auxiliary basis approach (TDDFT-risp) in GPU4PySCF, together with large system demonstrations carried out using the Tamm--Dancoff…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Zehao Zhou , Xiaojie Wu , Yanheng Li , Xinran Wei , Cheng Fan , Fusong Ju , Qiming Sun , Yi Qin Gao

The electronic structure calculations remain a major bottleneck in ab initio nonadiabatic molecular dynamics. We develop an efficient TDDFT-based FSSH implementation in the GPU4PySCF package for medium-sized molecular systems. Our approach…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Cheng Fan , Zhichen Pu , Zehao Zhou , Yuanheng Wang , Yi Qin Gao , Qiming Sun

This chapter provides a basic introduction to excited-state extensions of density functional theory (DFT), including time-dependent (TD-)DFT in both its linear-response and its explicitly time-dependent formulations. As applied to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 John M. Herbert

We propose a new method of calculating electronically excited states that combines a density functional theory (DFT) based ground state calculation with a linear response treatment that employs approximations used in the time-dependent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Robert Rüger , Erik van Lenthe , Thomas Heine , Lucas Visscher

Despite the variety of available computational approaches, state-of-the-art methods for calculating excitation energies such as time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), are computationally demanding and thus limited to moderate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Martina Stella , Kritam Thapa , Luigi Genovese , Laura E. Ratcliff

The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) has been broadly used to investigate the excited-state properties of various molecular systems. However, the current TDDFT heavily relies on outcomes from the corresponding ground-state…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Shu-Hao Yeh , Aaditya Manjanath , Yuan-Chung Cheng , Jeng-Da Chai , Chao-Ping Hsu

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

In this paper, we apply the recently developed ab initio renormalized excitonic method (REM) to the excitation energy calculations of various molecular aggregates, through the extension of REM to the time-dependent density functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 Yingjin Ma , Haibo Ma

The computation of excited electronic states with commonly employed (approximate) methods is challenging, typically yielding states of lower quality than the corresponding ground state for a higher computational cost. In this work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-01 Nell Karpinski , Pablo Ramos , Michele Pavanello

We present a formulation of spin-conserving and spin-flip, hybrid time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), including the calculation of analytical forces, which allows for efficient calculations of excited state properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-05 Yu Jin , Victor Wen-zhe Yu , Marco Govoni , Andrew C Xu , Giulia Galli

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is presently enjoying enormous popularity in quantum chemistry, as a useful tool for extracting electronic excited state energies. This article explains what TDDFT is, and how it differs from…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Elliott , Kieron Burke , Filipp Furche

Charge-transfer excited states are highly relevant for applications in molecular electronics. However, the accurate calculation of these states in large systems is challenging since wave function methods are prohibitively expensive,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Nicola Bogo , Zeyi Zhang , Martin Head-Gordon , Christopher J. Stein

The computational investigation of photochemical processes often entails the calculation of excited state geometries, energies, and energy gradients. The nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) approach treats specified nuclei, typically protons,…

X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) constitutes an essential technique for diagnosing material properties under extreme conditions, such as high pressures and intense laser heating. Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is one of the…

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

Eigenvalue problems and linear systems of equations involving large symmetric matrices are commonly solved in quantum chemistry using Krylov space methods, such as the Davidson algorithm. The preconditioner is a key component of Krylov…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Zehao Zhou , Shane M. Parker

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…

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

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

Theoretical studies of photochemical processes require a description of the energy surfaces of excited electronic states, especially near degeneracies, where transitions between states are most likely. Systems relevant to photochemical…

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