Combining wave function methods with density functional theory for excited states

S Ghosh, P Verma, CJ Cramer, L Gagliardi… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We review state-of-the-art electronic structure methods based both on wave function theory
(WFT) and density functional theory (DFT). Strengths and limitations of both the wave …

The dft/mrci method

CM Marian, A Heil… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the past two decades, the combined density functional theory and multireference
configuration interaction (DFT/MRCI) method has developed from a powerful approach for …

OpenMolcas: From source code to insight

I Fdez. Galván, M Vacher, A Alavi… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In this Article we describe the OpenMolcas environment and invite the computational
chemistry community to collaborate. The open-source project already includes a large …

Electronic structure of strongly correlated systems: recent developments in multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory and multiconfiguration nonclassical-energy …

C Zhou, MR Hermes, D Wu, JJ Bao, R Pandharkar… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Strong electron correlation plays an important role in transition-metal and heavy-metal
chemistry, magnetic molecules, bond breaking, biradicals, excited states, and many …

Origin of the failure of density functional theories in predicting inverted singlet–triplet gaps

S Ghosh, K Bhattacharyya - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent experimental and theoretical studies have shown several new organic molecules
that violate Hund's rule and have the first singlet excited state lower in energy than the first …

Multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory

P Sharma, JJ Bao, DG Truhlar… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Kohn-Sham density functional theory with the available exchange–correlation functionals is
less accurate for strongly correlated systems, which require a multiconfigurational …

Density matrix renormalization group with dynamical correlation via adiabatic connection

P Beran, M Matoušek, M Hapka… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The quantum chemical version of the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method
has established itself as one of the methods of choice for calculations of strongly correlated …

Electronic structure of nitrobenzene: A benchmark example of the accuracy of the multi-state CASPT2 theory

J Soto, M Algarra - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021 - ACS Publications
The electronic structure of nitrobenzene (C6H5NO2) has been studied by means of the
complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) and multi-state second-order …

Assessing the accuracy of tailored coupled cluster methods corrected by electronic wave functions of polynomial cost

A Leszczyk, M Máté, O Legeza… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tailored coupled cluster theory represents a computationally inexpensive way to describe
static and dynamical electron correlation effects. In this work, we scrutinize the performance …

On the performance of DFT/MRCI Hamiltonians for electronic excitations in transition metal complexes: The role of the damping function

A Heil, M Kleinschmidt, CM Marian - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The combination of density functional theory and multireference configuration interaction
(DFT/MRCI) is a well-established semi-empirical method suitable for computing spectral …