TD‐DFT benchmarks: a review

AD Laurent, D Jacquemin - International Journal of Quantum …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Time‐Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD‐DFT) has become the most widely‐used
theoretical approach to simulate the optical properties of both organic and inorganic …

QUESTDB: A database of highly accurate excitation energies for the electronic structure community

M Véril, A Scemama, M Caffarel… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We describe our efforts of the past few years to create a large set of more than 500 highly
accurate vertical excitation energies of various natures (π→ π*, n→ π*, double excitation …

A mountaineering strategy to excited states: Highly accurate energies and benchmarks for medium sized molecules

PF Loos, F Lipparini, M Boggio-Pasqua… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Following our previous work focusing on compounds containing up to 3 non-hydrogen
atoms [J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2018, 14, 4360–4379], we present here highly accurate …

[HTML][HTML] A deterministic alternative to the full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo method

NM Tubman, J Lee, TY Takeshita… - The Journal of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Development of exponentially scaling methods has seen great progress in tackling larger
systems than previously thought possible. One such technique, full configuration interaction …

[HTML][HTML] The ab-initio density matrix renormalization group in practice

R Olivares-Amaya, W Hu, N Nakatani… - The Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The ab-initio density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) is a tool that can be applied to a
wide variety of interesting problems in quantum chemistry. Here, we examine the density …

General time dependent approach to vibronic spectroscopy including Franck–Condon, Herzberg–Teller, and Duschinsky effects

A Baiardi, J Bloino, V Barone - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2013 - ACS Publications
An effective time-dependent (TD) approach to compute vibrationally resolved optical spectra
from first principles is presented for the computation of one-photon electronic spectra …

Reference energies for double excitations

PF Loos, M Boggio-Pasqua, A Scemama… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Excited states exhibiting double-excitation character are notoriously difficult to model using
conventional single-reference methods, such as adiabatic time-dependent density functional …

Modern approaches to exact diagonalization and selected configuration interaction with the adaptive sampling CI method

NM Tubman, CD Freeman, DS Levine… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in selected configuration interaction methods have made them competitive
with the most accurate techniques available and, hence, creating an increasingly powerful …

Excited states of methylene, polyenes, and ozone from heat-bath configuration interaction

AD Chien, AA Holmes, M Otten… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The electronically excited states of methylene (CH2), ethylene (C2H4), butadiene (C4H6),
hexatriene (C6H8), and ozone (O3) have long proven challenging due to their complex …

[HTML][HTML] Unbiasing the initiator approximation in full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo

K Ghanem, AY Lozovoi, A Alavi - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We identify and rectify a crucial source of bias in the initiator full configuration interaction
quantum Monte Carlo algorithm. Noninitiator determinants (ie, determinants whose …