Twenty years of auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo in quantum chemistry: An overview and assessment on main group chemistry and bond-breaking

J Lee, HQ Pham, DR Reichman - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this work, we present an overview of the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo
(ph-AFQMC) approach from a computational quantum chemistry perspective and present a …

Some recent developments in auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo for real materials

H Shi, S Zhang - The Journal of chemical physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method is a general numerical method
for correlated many-electron systems, which is being increasingly applied in lattice models …

Assessing density functional theory for chemically relevant open-shell transition metal reactions

LR Maurer, M Bursch, S Grimme… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Due to the principle lack of systematic improvement possibilities of density functional theory,
careful assessment of the performance of density functional approximations (DFAs) on well …

Regularized second-order Møller–Plesset theory: A more accurate alternative to conventional MP2 for noncovalent interactions and transition metal thermochemistry …

J Shee, M Loipersberger, A Rettig, J Lee… - The journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Second-order Møller–Plesset theory (MP2) notoriously breaks down for π-driven dispersion
interactions and dative bonds in transition metal complexes. Herein, we investigate three …

Correlation-consistent Gaussian basis sets for solids made simple

HZ Ye, TC Berkelbach - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The rapidly growing interest in simulating condensed-phase materials using quantum
chemistry methods calls for a library of high-quality Gaussian basis sets suitable for periodic …

[HTML][HTML] Revealing the nature of electron correlation in transition metal complexes with symmetry breaking and chemical intuition

J Shee, M Loipersberger, D Hait, J Lee… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we provide a nuanced view of electron correlation in the context of transition
metal complexes, reconciling computational characterization via spin and spatial symmetry …

Toward Benchmark-Quality Ab Initio Predictions for 3d Transition Metal Electrocatalysts: A Comparison of CCSD(T) and ph-AFQMC

H Neugebauer, HT Vuong, JL Weber… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Generating accurate ab initio ionization energies for transition metal complexes is an
important step toward the accurate computational description of their electrocatalytic …

On the potentially transformative role of auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo in quantum chemistry: A highly accurate method for transition metals and beyond

J Shee, JL Weber, DR Reichman… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Approximate solutions to the ab initio electronic structure problem have been a focus of
theoretical and computational chemistry research for much of the past century, with the goal …

Revisiting the orbital energy-dependent regularization of orbital-optimized second-order Møller–Plesset theory

A Rettig, J Shee, J Lee… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Optimizing orbitals in the presence of electron correlation, as in orbital-optimized second-
order Møller–Plesset perturbation theory (OOMP2), can remove artifacts associated with …

Synthesizing and post-synthetically modifying metal-organic frameworks (Co (BDC)-NH2) for carbonylative sonogashira coupling reaction

Z Mohammadkhani, K Rabiei, H Keypour… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, a new functionalized metal-organic framework (MOF)[Co (BDCsingle bondNH
2)@ Schiff-Base-Pd (II)] catalyst was synthesized using the post-synthetic modification of the …