Toward a Rigorous Theoretical Description of Photocatalysis Using Realistic Models

Á Morales-García, F Viñes, C Sousa… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This Perspective aims at providing a road map to computational heterogeneous
photocatalysis highlighting the knowledge needed to boost the design of efficient …

Quantum-centric supercomputing for materials science: A perspective on challenges and future directions

Y Alexeev, M Amsler, MA Barroca, S Bassini… - Future Generation …, 2024 - Elsevier
Computational models are an essential tool for the design, characterization, and discovery
of novel materials. Computationally hard tasks in materials science stretch the limits of …

Optical properties of neutral F centers in bulk MgO with density matrix embedding

S Verma, A Mitra, Y Jin, S Haldar… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The optical spectra of neutral oxygen vacancies (F0 centers) in the bulk MgO lattice are
investigated using density matrix embedding theory. The impurity Hamiltonian is solved with …

Green's function formulation of quantum defect embedding theory

N Sheng, C Vorwerk, M Govoni… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We present a Green's function formulation of the quantum defect embedding theory (QDET)
where a double counting scheme is rigorously derived within the G 0 W 0 approximation. We …

Excited state properties of point defects in semiconductors and insulators investigated with time-dependent density functional theory

Y Jin, VW Yu, M Govoni, AC Xu… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
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 …

Lessons Learned from Catalysis to Qubits: General Strategies to Build Accessible and Accurate First-Principles Models of Point Defects

GM Repa, LA Fredin - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2023 - ACS Publications
Defects and dopants play critical roles in defining the properties of a material. Achieving a
mechanistic understanding of how such properties arise is challenging with current …

Periodic density matrix embedding for co adsorption on the mgo (001) surface

A Mitra, MR Hermes, M Cho, V Agarawal… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The adsorption of simple gas molecules to metal oxide surfaces is a primary step in many
heterogeneous catalysis applications. Quantum chemical modeling of these reactions is a …

Local excitations of a charged nitrogen vacancy in diamond with multireference density matrix embedding theory

S Haldar, A Mitra, MR Hermes… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We investigate the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond using periodic
density matrix embedding theory (pDMET). To describe the strongly correlated excited states …

On the Structure of Oxygen Deficient Amorphous Oxide Films

J Strand, AL Shluger - Advanced Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding defects in amorphous oxide films and heterostructures is vital to improving
performance of microelectronic devices, thin‐film transistors, and electrocatalysis. However …

Ab initio quantum simulation of strongly correlated materials with quantum embedding

C Cao, J Sun, X Yuan, HS Hu, HQ Pham… - npj Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum computing has shown great potential in various quantum chemical applications
such as drug discovery, material design, and catalyst optimization. Although significant …