First-principles models for van der Waals interactions in molecules and materials: Concepts, theory, and applications

J Hermann, RA DiStasio Jr, A Tkatchenko - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Noncovalent van der Waals (vdW) or dispersion forces are ubiquitous in nature and
influence the structure, stability, dynamics, and function of molecules and materials …

Modeling polymorphic molecular crystals with electronic structure theory

GJO Beran - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Interest in molecular crystals has grown thanks to their relevance to pharmaceuticals,
organic semiconductor materials, foods, and many other applications. Electronic structure …

[HTML][HTML] CP2K: An electronic structure and molecular dynamics software package-Quickstep: Efficient and accurate electronic structure calculations

TD Kühne, M Iannuzzi, M Del Ben, VV Rybkin… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
CP2K is an open source electronic structure and molecular dynamics software package to
perform atomistic simulations of solid-state, liquid, molecular, and biological systems. It is …

Fault-tolerant quantum simulation of materials using Bloch orbitals

NC Rubin, DW Berry, FD Malone, AF White, T Khattar… - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
The simulation of chemistry is among the most promising applications of quantum
computing. However, most prior work exploring algorithms for block encoding, time evolving …

Coupled cluster theory in materials science

IY Zhang, A Grüneis - Frontiers in Materials, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The workhorse method of computational materials science is undeniably the density
functional theory (DFT) in the Kohn-Sham framework of approximate exchange and …

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 …

Toward GW Calculations on Thousands of Atoms

J Wilhelm, D Golze, L Talirz, J Hutter… - The journal of physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The GW approximation of many-body perturbation theory is an accurate method for
computing electron addition and removal energies of molecules and solids. In a canonical …

Machine learning accelerates quantum mechanics predictions of molecular crystals

Y Han, I Ali, Z Wang, J Cai, S Wu, J Tang, L Zhang… - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Quantum mechanics (QM) approaches (DFT, MP2, CCSD (T), etc.) play an important role in
calculating molecules and crystals with a high accuracy and acceptable efficiency. In recent …

Understanding non-covalent interactions in larger molecular complexes from first principles

YS Al-Hamdani, A Tkatchenko - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Non-covalent interactions pervade all matter and play a fundamental role in layered
materials, biological systems, and large molecular complexes. Despite this, our accumulated …

Redox potentials and acidity constants from density functional theory based molecular dynamics

J Cheng, X Liu, J VandeVondele… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus All-atom methods treat solute and solvent at the same level of electronic
structure theory and statistical mechanics. All-atom computation of acidity constants (p K a) …