Best‐practice DFT protocols for basic molecular computational chemistry

M Bursch, JM Mewes, A Hansen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays, many chemical investigations are supported by routine calculations of molecular
structures, reaction energies, barrier heights, and spectroscopic properties. The lion's share …

Theoretical advances in polariton chemistry and molecular cavity quantum electrodynamics

A Mandal, MAD Taylor, BM Weight… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
When molecules are coupled to an optical cavity, new light–matter hybrid states, so-called
polaritons, are formed due to quantum light–matter interactions. With the experimental …

A comprehensive electron wavefunction analysis toolbox for chemists, Multiwfn

T Lu - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Analysis of electron wavefunction is a key component of quantum chemistry investigations
and is indispensable for the practical research of many chemical problems. After more than …

Simple, efficient, and universal energy decomposition analysis method based on dispersion-corrected density functional theory

T Lu, Q Chen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2023 - ACS Publications
Energy decomposition analysis (EDA) is an important class of methods to explore the nature
of interaction between fragments in a chemical system. It can decompose the interaction …

Unbiasing fermionic quantum Monte Carlo with a quantum computer

WJ Huggins, BA O'Gorman, NC Rubin, DR Reichman… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Interacting many-electron problems pose some of the greatest computational challenges in
science, with essential applications across many fields. The solutions to these problems will …

Reversible spin-optical interface in luminescent organic radicals

S Gorgon, K Lv, J Grüne, BH Drummond, WK Myers… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Molecules present a versatile platform for quantum information science, and are candidates
for sensing and computation applications,. Robust spin-optical interfaces are key to …

Revisiting the performance of time-dependent density functional theory for electronic excitations: Assessment of 43 popular and recently developed functionals from …

J Liang, X Feng, D Hait… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this paper, the performance of more than 40 popular or recently developed density
functionals is assessed for the calculation of 463 vertical excitation energies against the …

Improving results by improving densities: Density-corrected density functional theory

E Sim, S Song, S Vuckovic, K Burke - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory (DFT) calculations have become widespread in both chemistry and
materials, because they usually provide useful accuracy at much lower computational cost …

Spin–phonon coupling and magnetic relaxation in single-molecule magnets

JGC Kragskow, A Mattioni, JK Staab, D Reta… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Electron–phonon coupling is important in many physical phenomena, eg photosynthesis,
catalysis and quantum information processing, but its impacts are difficult to grasp on the …

FCclasses3: Vibrationally‐resolved spectra simulated at the edge of the harmonic approximation

J Cerezo, F Santoro - Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We introduce FCclasses3, a code to carry out vibronic simulations of electronic spectra and
nonradiative rates, based on the harmonic approximation. Key new features are …