Material research from the viewpoint of functional motifs

XM Jiang, S Deng, MH Whangbo… - National Science …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
As early as 2001, the need for the 'functional motif theory'was pointed out, to assist the
rational design of functional materials. The properties of materials are determined by their …

X-ray constrained wavefunctions based on Hirshfeld atoms. I. Method and review

ML Davidson, S Grabowsky… - … Section B: Structural …, 2022 - journals.iucr.org
The X-ray constrained wavefunction (XCW) procedure for obtaining an experimentally
reconstructed wavefunction from X-ray diffraction data is reviewed. The two-center …

The electron density: a fidelity witness for quantum computation

M Skogh, W Dobrautz, P Lolur, C Warren… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
There is currently no combination of quantum hardware and algorithms that can provide an
advantage over conventional calculations of molecules or materials. However, if or when …

Climbing Jacob's Ladder of structural refinement: Introduction of a localized molecular orbital-based embedding for accurate X-ray determinations of hydrogen atom …

EK Wieduwilt, G Macetti, A Genoni - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The positions of hydrogen atoms in molecules are fundamental in many aspects of
chemistry. Nevertheless, most molecular structures are obtained from refinements of X-ray …

Vanishing of the atomic form factor derivatives in non-spherical structural refinement–a key approximation scrutinized in the case of Hirshfeld atom refinement

L Midgley, LJ Bourhis, OV Dolomanov… - … A: Foundations and …, 2021 - journals.iucr.org
When calculating derivatives of structure factors, there is one particular term (the derivatives
of the atomic form factors) that will always be zero in the case of tabulated spherical atomic …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of experimentally obtained electron correlation and polarization on electron densities and exchange-correlation potentials

E Hupf, F Kleemiss, T Borrmann, R Pal… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In X-ray constrained wavefunction (XCW) fitting, external information, such as electron
correlation and polarization, is included into a single-determinantal isolated-molecule …

Quantum mechanics/extremely localized molecular orbital embedding strategy for excited states: Coupling to time-dependent density functional theory and equation …

G Macetti, A Genoni - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The QM/ELMO (quantum mechanics/extremely localized molecular orbital) method is a
recently developed embedding technique in which the most important region of the system …

Critical assessment of the x-ray restrained wave function approach: Advantages, drawbacks, and perspectives for density functional theory and periodic ab initio …

A Genoni, Á Martín Pendás - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The x-ray restrained wave function (XRW) method is a quantum crystallographic technique
to extract wave functions compatible with experimental x-ray diffraction data. The approach …

How do density functionals affect the Hirshfeld atom refinement?

B Landeros-Rivera, D Ramírez-Palma… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, the effect of mixing different amounts of Hartree–Fock (HF) exchange with
hybrid density functionals applied to the Hirshfeld atom refinement (HAR) of urea and oxalic …

Initial maximum overlap method for large systems by the quantum mechanics/extremely localized molecular orbital embedding technique

G Macetti, A Genoni - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Quantum chemistry offers a large variety of methods to treat excited states. Many of them are
based on a multireference wave function ansatz and are therefore characterized by an …