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 …

QMCPACK: an open source ab initio quantum Monte Carlo package for the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids

J Kim, AD Baczewski, TD Beaudet… - Journal of Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
QMCPACK is an open source quantum Monte Carlo package for ab initio electronic
structure calculations. It supports calculations of metallic and insulating solids, molecules …

Variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations with the CASINO code

RJ Needs, MD Towler, ND Drummond… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We present an overview of the variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods as
implemented in the casino program. We particularly focus on developments made in the last …

Interactions between large molecules pose a puzzle for reference quantum mechanical methods

YS Al-Hamdani, PR Nagy, A Zen, D Barton… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Quantum-mechanical methods are used for understanding molecular interactions
throughout the natural sciences. Quantum diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) and coupled cluster …

Quantum package 2.0: An open-source determinant-driven suite of programs

Y Garniron, T Applencourt, K Gasperich… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Quantum chemistry is a discipline which relies heavily on very expensive numerical
computations. The scaling of correlated wave function methods lies, in their standard …

[HTML][HTML] Fast semistochastic heat-bath configuration interaction

J Li, M Otten, AA Holmes, S Sharma… - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents in detail our fast semistochastic heat-bath configuration interaction
(SHCI) method for solving the many-body Schrödinger equation. We identify and eliminate …

[HTML][HTML] Excited states using semistochastic heat-bath configuration interaction

AA Holmes, CJ Umrigar, S Sharma - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We extend our recently developed heat-bath configuration interaction (HCI) algorithm, and
our semistochastic algorithm for performing multireference perturbation theory, to calculate …

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] Almost exact energies for the Gaussian-2 set with the semistochastic heat-bath configuration interaction method

Y Yao, E Giner, J Li, J Toulouse… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The recently developed semistochastic heat-bath configuration interaction (SHCI) method is
a systematically improvable selected configuration interaction plus perturbation theory …

Orbital optimization in selected configuration interaction methods

Y Yao, CJ Umrigar - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2021 - ACS Publications
We study several approaches to orbital optimization in selected configuration interaction
(SCI) plus perturbation theory methods and test them on the ground and excited states of …