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Fragmentation methods applied to multireference wave functions constitute a road towards the application of highly accurate ab initio wave function calculations to large molecules and solids. However, it is important for reproducibility and…

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In parallel to the unified construction of relativistic Hamiltonians based solely on physical arguments [J. Chem. Phys. 160, 084111 (2024)], a unified implementation of relativistic wave function methods is achieved here via programming…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Ning Zhang , Wenjian Liu

In quantum chemistry, self-consistent field (SCF) algorithms define a nonlinear optimization problem, with both continuous and discrete components. In this work, we derive Hartree-Fock-inspired SCF algorithms that can be exactly written as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Alexis Ralli , Tim Weaving , Peter V. Coveney , Peter J. Love

Iron-sulfur clusters comprise an important functional motif of the catalytic centers of biological systems, capable of enabling important chemical transformations at ambient conditions. This remarkable capability derives from a notoriously…

Noncollinear (NC) magnetism and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) are indispensable for predictive ab initio materials simulations with pronounced relativistic effects and magnetic frustration, yet they significantly increase the cost of…

We use the recently-developed Heat-bath Configuration Interaction (HCI) algorithm as an efficient active-space solver to perform multi-configuration self-consistent field calculations (HCISCF) with large active spaces. We give a detailed…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 James E. T. Smith , Adam A. Holmes , Bastien Mussard , Sandeep Sharma

We propose the multi-state complete-active-space second-order perturbation theory spin-orbit method (MS-CASPT2-SO) for electronic structure calculations. It is a two-step spin-orbit coupling method that does not make use of energy shifts…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Zoila Barandiaran , Luis Seijo

The multiconfiguration self-consistent field (MCSCF) method is revisited with a specific focus on two-electron systems for simplicity. The wave function is represented as a linear combination of Slater determinants. Both the orbitals and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Evgueni Dinvay , Rasmus Vikhamar-Sandberg

It has recently been shown that configuration state functions (CSF) with local orbitals can provide a compact reference state for low-spin open-shell electronic structures, such as antiferromagnetic states. However, optimizing a low-spin…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Hugh G. A. Burton

The efficiency of the recently proposed iCIPT2 [iterative configuration interaction (iCI) with selection and second-order perturbation theory (PT2); J. Chem. Theory Comput. 16, 2296 (2020)] for strongly correlated electrons is further…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Ning Zhang , Wenjian Liu , Mark R. Hoffmann

We present the time-dependent complete-active-space self-consistent-field (TD-CASSCF) method to simulate multielectron dynamics in ultrafast intense laser fields from the first principles. While based on multiconfiguration expansion, it…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Takeshi Sato , Yuki Orimo , Takuma Teramura , Oyunbileg Tugs , Kenichi L. Ishikawa

This paper investigates the dynamics of spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with rotation and spin-orbit coupling (SOC). In order to better simulate the dynamics, we present an efficient high-order compact splitting Fourier spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Xin Liu , Ziqing Xie , Yongjun Yuan , Yong Zhang , Xinyi Zhao

We present a theory of two-component atomic Fermi superfluid with tunable pairing interaction in a thin spherical shell subject to spin-orbit coupling (SOC). By incorporating SOC into the Fermi superfluid in the BCS-Bose Einstein…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-15 Yan He , Chih-Chun Chien

Recently, numerous meta-heuristic based approaches are deliberated to reduce the computational complexities of several existing approaches that include tricky derivations, very large memory space requirement, initial value sensitivity etc.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Bryar A. Hassan

Traditional multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock (MCHF) and configuration interaction (CI) methods are based on a single orthonormal orbital basis (OB). For atoms with complicated shell structures, a large OB is needed to saturate all the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Verdebout , P. Rynkun , P. Jönsson , G. Gaigalas , C. Froese Fischer , M. Godefroid

Extending many-body numerical techniques which are powerful in the context of simple model calculations to the realm of realistic material simulations can be a challenging task. Realistic systems often involve multiple active orbitals,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-23 Jonas B. Profe , Jiawei Yan , Karim Zantout , Philipp Werner , Roser Valentí

Since its inception, the ReSpect program has been evolving to provide powerful tools for simulating spectroscopic processes and exploring emerging research areas, all while incorporating relativistic effects, particularly spin-orbit…

Selected configuration interaction (SCI) methods, when complemented with a second-order perturbative correction, provide near full configuration interaction (FCI) quality energies with only a small fraction of the Slater determinants of the…

In this work, we investigate the possibility of improving multireference-driven coupled cluster (CC) approaches with an algorithm that iteratively combines complete active space (CAS) calculations with tailored CC and externally corrected…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Robin Feldmann , Max Mörchen , Jakub Lang , Michał Lesiuk , Markus Reiher

By applying our methodology, we propose a defect in 4H-SiC which combines a Si vacancy and a C atom substituted with S (VSiSC) to have a spin-triplet ground state with the spin qubit functionality. Our calculations confirm that all…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Marisol Alcántara Ortigoza , Sergey Stolbov