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Reply to Comment on "Efficient implementation of the superposition of atomic potentials initial guess for electronic structure calculations in Gaussian basis sets"

Susi Lehtola, Lucas Visscher, Eberhard Engel

We reply to the Comment by Surjuse, Deng, Asadchev, and Valeev [arXiv:2603.16989] on our article "Efficient implementation of the superposition of atomic potentials initial guess f…

physics.comp-ph2026

Automatic generation of exchange-correlation response kernels

Susi Lehtola

Computing density-functional response properties requires contracting derivatives of the exchange--correlation (xc) energy with perturbed densities on a grid. While the xc function…

physics.comp-ph2026

libwignernj: a reusable C/C++/Fortran/Python library for exact Wigner symbols and related coefficients

Susi Lehtola

We describe libwignernj, a freely available, BSD-licensed library that evaluates Wigner 3j, 6j, and 9j symbols, Clebsch--Gordan, Racah , and Fano coefficients, and Gaunt coe…

physics.comp-ph2026

Real Quantum Chemistry With Complex Orbitals

Hugo Åström, Susi Lehtola

We follow up our study of basis set truncation errors for atoms in magnetic fields [Åström and Lehtola, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2023, 127, 10872]. Our previous study employed an approxim…

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The Python Simulations of Chemistry Framework: 10 years of an open-source quantum chemistry project

Qiming Sun, Matthew R Hermes, Xiaojie Wu +100

Over the past decade, the Python-based Simulations of Chemistry Framework (PySCF) has developed into a widely used open-source platform for electronic structure theory and quantum…

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Semi-Local Exchange-Correlation Approximations in Density Functional Theory

Fabien Tran, Susi Lehtola, Stefano Pittalis +1

Density functional theory has become the workhorse of modern electronic structure calculations, with wide-ranging applications in chemistry, physics, materials science, biochemistr…