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20172026
most citedRecent developments in the PySCF program package

1.2k citations · 1.6k across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

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…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 4 cited

Full Configuration Interaction Excited-State Energies in Large Active Spaces from Subspace Iteration with Repeated Random Sparsification

Samuel M. Greene, Robert J. Webber, James E. T. Smith +2

We present a stable and systematically improvable quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) approach to calculating excited-state energies, which we implement using our fast randomized iteration m…

physics.chem-ph2022

Near-Exact Nuclear Gradients of Complete Active Space Self-Consistent Field Wave Functions

James E. T. Smith, Joonho Lee, Sandeep Sharma

In this paper, we study the nuclear gradients of heat bath configuration interaction self-consistent field (HCISCF) wave functions and use them to optimize molecular geometries for…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 1.2k cited

Recent developments in the PySCF program package

Qiming Sun, Xing Zhang, Samragni Banerjee +46

PYSCF is a Python-based general-purpose electronic structure platform that both supports first-principles simulations of molecules and solids, as well as accelerates the developmen…

quant-ph2019★ 121 cited

NetKet: A Machine Learning Toolkit for Many-Body Quantum Systems

Giuseppe Carleo, Kenny Choo, Damian Hofmann +15

We introduce NetKet, a comprehensive open source framework for the study of many-body quantum systems using machine learning techniques. The framework is built around a general and…

physics.chem-ph2017★ 212 cited

Cheap and near exact CASSCF with large active spaces

James E. T. Smith, Adam A. Holmes, Bastien Mussard +1

We use the recently-developed Heat-bath Configuration Interaction (HCI) algorithm as an efficient active-space solver to perform multi-configuration self-consistent field calculati…