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physics.chem-ph2026

Putting PASPT2 on a Firmer Basis

Chunzhang Liu, Ning Zhang, Wenjian Liu

The recently proposed partial-active-space (PAS) multi-state second-order perturbation theory (PASPT2) [Precis. Chem. 4, 997 (2026)] features connected amplitudes and a connected,…

physics.chem-ph2026

cQED-iCIPT2: A Near-Exact Method for Polaritonic Chemistry

Ning Zhang, Wenjian Liu

Strong light-matter coupling in optical cavities provides a versatile platform for modulating chemical structure, reactivity, and spectroscopy, and hence motivates the development…

physics.chem-ph2026

Unified MPI Parallelization of Wave Function Methods: iCIPT2 as a Showcase

Qingpeng Wang, Ning Zhang, Wenjian Liu

The integration of quantum chemical methods with high-performance computing is indispensable for handling large systems with modest accuracy or even small systems but with high acc…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 4 cited

PASPT2: a size-extensive and size-consistent partial-active-space multi-state multi-reference second-order perturbation theory for strongly correlated electrons

Chunzhang Liu, Ning Zhang, Wenjian Liu

A partial-active-space (PAS) multi-state (MS) multi-reference second-order perturbation theory (MRPT2) for the electronic structure of strongly correlated systems of electrons, dub…

physics.chem-ph2025

MetaWave: A Platform for Unified Implementation of Nonrelativistic and Relativistic Wavefunctions

Ning Zhang, Qingpeng Wang, Wenjian Liu

\texttt{MetaWave} is a C++ template-based architecture designed for unified implementation of nonrelativistic and relativistic wavefunction-based quantum chemical methods. It is hi…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 1 cited

QUEST\#4X: an extension of QUEST\#4 for benchmarking multireference wavefunction methods

Yangyang Song, Ning Zhang, Yibo Lei +2

Given a number of datasets for evaluating the performance of single reference methods for the low-lying excited states of closed-shell molecules, a comprehensive dataset for assess…

physics.chem-ph2024

Unified Implementation of Relativistic Wave Function Methods: 4C-iCIPT2 as a Showcase

Ning Zhang, Wenjian Liu

In parallel to the unified construction of relativistic Hamiltonians based solely on physical arguments [J. Chem. Phys. 160, 084111 (2024)], a unified implementation of relativisti…

physics.chem-ph2023

SOiCISCF: Combining SOiCI and iCISCF for Variational Treatment of Spin-orbit Coupling

Yang Guo, Ning Zhang, Wenjian Liu

It has recently been shown that the SOiCI approach [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 34 (2022) 224007], in conjunction with the spin-separated exact two-component relativistic Hamiltonian…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 25 cited

SOiCI and iCISO: Combining iterative configuration interaction with spin-orbit coupling in two ways

Ning Zhang, Yunlong Xiao, Wenjian Liu

The near-exact iCIPT2 approach for strongly correlated systems of electrons, which stems from the combination of iterative configuration interaction (iCI, an exact solver of full C…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 1 cited

iCISCF: An Iterative Configuration Interaction-based Multiconfigurational Self-consistent Field Theory for Large Active Spaces

Yang Guo, Ning Zhang, Yibo Lei +1

An iterative configuration interaction (iCI)-based multiconfigurational self-consistent field (SCF) theory, iCISCF, is proposed to handle systems that require large complete active…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 1 cited

Further Development of iCIPT2 for Strongly Correlated Electrons

Ning Zhang, Wenjian Liu, Mark R. Hoffmann

The efficiency of the recently proposed iCIPT2 [iterative configuration interaction (iCI) with selection and second-order perturbation theory (PT2); J. Chem. Theory Comput. 16, 229…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 156 cited

The Ground State Electronic Energy of Benzene

Janus J. Eriksen, Tyler A. Anderson, J. Emiliano Deustua +21

We report on the findings of a blind challenge devoted to determining the frozen-core, full configuration interaction (FCI) ground state energy of the benzene molecule in a standar…

physics.chem-ph2019

Iterative Configuration Interaction with Selection

Ning Zhang, Wenjian Liu, Mark R. Hoffmann

Even when starting with a very poor initial guess, the iterative configuration interaction (iCI) approach can converge from above to full CI very quickly by constructing and diagon…