koopmans: An Open-Source Package for Accurately and Efficiently Predicting Spectral Properties with Koopmans Functionals

EB Linscott, N Colonna, R De Gennaro… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade we have developed Koopmans functionals, a computationally efficient
approach for predicting spectral properties with an orbital-density-dependent functional …

Python in chemistry: physicochemical tools

FV Ryzhkov, YE Ryzhkova, MN Elinson - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The popularity of the Python programming language in chemistry is growing every year.
Python provides versatility, simplicity, and a rich ecosystem of libraries, making it the …

[HTML][HTML] Corrected density functional theory and the random phase approximation: Improved accuracy at little extra cost

D Graf, AJW Thom - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We recently introduced an efficient methodology to perform density-corrected Hartree–Fock
density functional theory [DC (HF)-DFT] calculations and an extension to it we called …

Toward the Rational Design of Organic Catalysts for Organocatalysed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerisation

Z Wang, C Wu, W Liu - Polymers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Thanks to their diversity, organic photocatalysts (PCs) have been widely used in
manufacturing polymeric products with well-defined molecular weights, block sequences …

Localized orbital scaling correction for periodic systems

A Mahler, J Williams, NQ Su, W Yang - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Density functional theory offers accurate structure prediction at acceptable computational
cost, but commonly used approximations suffer from delocalization error; this results in …

Accurate Prediction of Core Level Binding Energies from Ground-State Density Functional Calculations: The Importance of Localization and Screening

J Yu, Y Mei, Z Chen, W Yang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.06345, 2024 - arxiv.org
A new method for predicting core level binding energies (CLBEs) is developed by both
localizing the core-level states and describing the screening effect. CLBEs contain important …

[HTML][HTML] Combining localized orbital scaling correction and Bethe–Salpeter equation for accurate excitation energies

J Li, Y Jin, NQ Su, W Yang - The Journal of chemical physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We applied localized orbital scaling correction (LOSC) in Bethe–Salpeter equation (BSE) to
predict accurate excitation energies for molecules. LOSC systematically eliminates the …

An assessment of orbital energy corrections for the direct random phase approximation and explicit σ-functionals

Y Lemke, D Graf, J Kussmann, C Ochsenfeld - Molecular Physics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The σ-functionals developed in the Görling group [J. Chem. Phys. 154, 014104 (2021); ibid.
155, 134111 (2021)] facilitate impressive improvements over the direct random phase …

Fractional Charge Density Functional Theory and Its Application to the Electro-inductive Effect

JH Kim, D Kim, W Yang, MH Baik - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We employed the chemical potential equalization principle to demonstrate that fractional
electrons are involved in the electro-inductive effect as well as the vibrational Stark effect. By …

Orbital Energies Are Chemical Potentials in Ground-State Density Functional Theory and Excited-State SCF Theory

W Yang, Y Fan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10059, 2024 - arxiv.org
We prove the general chemical potential theorem: the noninteracting one-electron orbital
energies in DFT ground states and $\Delta $ SCF excited states are corresponding chemical …