Electronic structure methods for the description of nonadiabatic effects and conical intersections

S Matsika - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nonadiabatic effects are ubiquitous in photophysics and photochemistry, and therefore,
many theoretical developments have been made to properly describe them. Conical …

Quantum equation of motion for computing molecular excitation energies on a noisy quantum processor

PJ Ollitrault, A Kandala, CF Chen, PK Barkoutsos… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
The computation of molecular excitation energies is essential for predicting photo-induced
reactions of chemical and technological interest. While the classical computing resources …

Excited state non-adiabatic dynamics of large photoswitchable molecules using a chemically transferable machine learning potential

S Axelrod, E Shakhnovich… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Light-induced chemical processes are ubiquitous in nature and have widespread
technological applications. For example, photoisomerization can allow a drug with a photo …

[HTML][HTML] CAS without SCF—Why to use CASCI and where to get the orbitals

BG Levine, AS Durden, MP Esch, F Liang… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) method has seen broad adoption
due to its ability to describe the electronic structure of both the ground and excited states of …

Ultrafast spectroscopy of photoactive molecular systems from first principles: Where we stand today and where we are going

I Conti, G Cerullo, A Nenov… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Computational spectroscopy is becoming a mandatory tool for the interpretation of the
complex, and often congested, spectral maps delivered by modern non-linear multi-pulse …

Calculations of excited electronic states by converging on saddle points using generalized mode following

YLA Schmerwitz, G Levi, H Jónsson - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Calculations of excited electronic states are carried out by finding saddle points on the
surface describing the variation of the energy of the system as a function of the electronic …

Variational density functional calculations of excited states: Conical intersection and avoided crossing in ethylene bond twisting

YLA Schmerwitz, AV Ivanov, EO Jónsson… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Theoretical studies of photochemical processes require a description of the energy surfaces
of excited electronic states, especially near degeneracies, where transitions between states …

Conical intersections at the nanoscale: Molecular ideas for materials

BG Levine, MP Esch, BS Fales… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The ability to predict and describe nonradiative processes in molecules via the identification
and characterization of conical intersections is one of the greatest recent successes of …

[HTML][HTML] Hole–hole Tamm–Dancoff-approximated density functional theory: A highly efficient electronic structure method incorporating dynamic and static correlation

C Bannwarth, JK Yu, EG Hohenstein… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The study of photochemical reaction dynamics requires accurate as well as computationally
efficient electronic structure methods for the ground and excited states. While time …

Ab Initio Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics with Hole–Hole Tamm–Dancoff Approximated Density Functional Theory

JK Yu, C Bannwarth, EG Hohenstein… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The study of photoinduced dynamics in chemical systems necessitates accurate and
computationally efficient electronic structure methods, especially as the systems of interest …