The OpenMolcas Web: A Community-Driven Approach to Advancing Computational Chemistry

G Li Manni, I Fdez. Galván, A Alavi… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The developments of the open-source OpenMolcas chemistry software environment since
spring 2020 are described, with a focus on novel functionalities accessible in the stable …

Excited state orbital optimization via minimizing the square of the gradient: General approach and application to singly and doubly excited states via density functional …

D Hait, M Head-Gordon - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We present a general approach to converge excited state solutions to any quantum
chemistry orbital optimization process, without the risk of variational collapse. The resulting …

Nonadiabatic coupling in trajectory surface hop**: How approximations impact excited-state reaction dynamics

ICD Merritt, D Jacquemin, M Vacher - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photochemical reactions are widely modeled using the popular trajectory surface hop**
(TSH) method, an affordable mixed quantum-classical approximation to the full quantum …

A promising intersection of excited‐state‐specific methods from quantum chemistry and quantum Monte Carlo

L Otis, E Neuscamman - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We present a discussion of recent progress in excited‐state‐specific quantum chemistry and
quantum Monte Carlo alongside a demonstration of how a combination of methods from …

Seniority and hierarchy configuration interaction for radicals and excited states

F Kossoski, PF Loos - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hierarchy configuration interaction (hCI) has recently been introduced as an alternative
configuration interaction (CI) route combining excitation degree and seniority number and …

Energy landscape of state-specific electronic structure theory

HGA Burton - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2022 - ACS Publications
State-specific approximations can provide a more accurate representation of challenging
electronic excitations by enabling relaxation of the electron density. While state-specific …

Excited states, symmetry breaking, and unphysical solutions in state-specific CASSCF theory

A Marie, HGA Burton - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2023 - ACS Publications
State-specific electronic structure theory provides a route toward balanced excited-state
wave functions by exploiting higher-energy stationary points of the electronic energy …

State-specific coupled-cluster methods for excited states

Y Damour, A Scemama, D Jacquemin… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We reexamine ΔCCSD, a state-specific coupled-cluster (CC) with single and double
excitations (CCSD) approach that targets excited states through the utilization of non-Aufbau …

[HTML][HTML] Variational coupled cluster for ground and excited states

A Marie, F Kossoski, PF Loos - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In single-reference coupled-cluster (CC) methods, one has to solve a set of non-linear
polynomial equations in order to determine the so-called amplitudes that are then used to …

QSym2: A Quantum Symbolic Symmetry Analysis Program for Electronic Structure

BC Huynh, M Wibowo-Teale… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Symmetry provides a powerful machinery to classify, interpret, and understand quantum-
mechanical theories and results. However, most contemporary quantum chemistry packages …