Challenges in large scale quantum mechanical calculations

LE Ratcliff, S Mohr, G Huhs, T Deutsch… - Wiley …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
During the past decades, quantum mechanical methods have undergone an amazing
transition from pioneering investigations of experts into a wide range of practical …

Vibronic and environmental effects in simulations of optical spectroscopy

TJ Zuehlsdorff, SV Shedge, SY Lu… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Including both environmental and vibronic effects is important for accurate simulation of
optical spectra, but combining these effects remains computationally challenging. We outline …

[HTML][HTML] The ONETEP linear-scaling density functional theory program

JCA Prentice, J Aarons, JC Womack… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We present an overview of the onetep program for linear-scaling density functional theory
(DFT) calculations with large basis set (plane-wave) accuracy on parallel computers. The …

Modeling absorption spectra of molecules in solution

TJ Zuehlsdorff, CM Isborn - International Journal of Quantum …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The presence of solvent tunes many properties of a molecule, such as its ground and
excited state geometry, dipole moment, excitation energy, and absorption spectrum …

Machine learning for absorption cross sections

BX Xue, M Barbatti, PO Dral - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2020 - ACS Publications
We present a machine learning (ML) method to accelerate the nuclear ensemble approach
(NEA) for computing absorption cross sections. ML-NEA is used to calculate cross sections …

Applications of large-scale density functional theory in biology

DJ Cole, NDM Hine - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Density functional theory (DFT) has become a routine tool for the computation of electronic
structure in the physics, materials and chemistry fields. Yet the application of traditional DFT …

Density functional theory calculations of large systems: Interplay between fragments, observables, and computational complexity

W Dawson, A Degomme, M Stella… - Wiley …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the past decade, developments of computational technology around density functional
theory (DFT) calculations have considerably increased the system sizes which can be …

Absolutely localized projection-based embedding for excited states

X Wen, DS Graham, DV Chulhai… - Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We present a quantum embedding method that allows for calculation of local excited states
embedded in a Kohn–Sham density functional theory (DFT) environment. Projection-based …

Predicting solvatochromic shifts and colours of a solvated organic dye: The example of nile red

TJ Zuehlsdorff, PD Haynes, MC Payne… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The solvatochromic shift, as well as the change in colour of the simple organic dye nile red,
is studied in two polar and two non-polar solvents in the context of large-scale time …

Solvent effects on electronic excitations of an organic chromophore

TJ Zuehlsdorff, PD Haynes, F Hanke… - Journal of Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In this work we study the solvatochromic shift of a selected low-energy excited state of
alizarin in water by using a linear-scaling implementation of large-scale time-dependent …