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most citedResolving Correlated States of Benzyne on a Quantum Computer with an Error-Mitigated Quantum Contracted Eigenvalue Solver

44 citations · 230 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

quant-ph2026

Open-source implementation of the anti-Hermitian contracted Schrödinger equation for electronic ground and excited states

Daniel Gibney, Anthony W Schlimgen, Jan-Niklas Boyn

Efficient simulation of strongly correlated electrons has become a routine tool in molecular electronic structure theory due to recent advances in approximate configuration interac…

physics.comp-ph2025

Benchmarking and contrasting exchange-correlation functional differences in response to static correlation in unrestricted Kohn-Sham and a hybrid 1-electron reduced density matrix functional theory

Daniel Gibney, Jan-Niklas Boyn

A hybrid Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) and 1-electron Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory (1-RDMFT) has recently been developed to describe strongly correlated…

physics.chem-ph2024

Enhancing Density Functional Theory for Static Correlation in Large Molecules

Daniel Gibney, Jan-Niklas Boyn, David A. Mazziotti

A critical challenge for density functional theory (DFT) in practice is its limited ability to treat static electron correlation, leading to errors in its prediction of charges, mu…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 6 cited

Elucidating the molecular orbital dependence of the total electronic energy in multireference problems

Jan-Niklas Boyn, David A. Mazziotti

The accurate resolution of the chemical properties of strongly correlated systems, such as biradicals, requires the use of electronic structure theories that account for both multi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 16 cited

Interplay of Electronic and Geometric Structure Tunes Organic Biradical Character in Bimetallic Tetrathiafulvalene Tetrathiolate Complexes

Jan-Niklas Boyn, Lauren E. McNamara, John S. Anderson +1

The synthesis and design of organic biradicals with tunable singlet-triplet gaps has become the subject of significant research interest, owing to their possible photochemical appl…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 24 cited

Comparison of Density-Matrix Corrections to Density Functional Theory

Daniel Gibney, Jan-Niklas Boyn, David A. Mazziotti

Density functional theory (DFT), one of the most widely utilized methods available to computational chemistry, fails to describe systems with statically correlated electrons. To ad…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 32 cited

Density Functional Theory Transformed into a One-electron Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory for the Capture of Static Correlation

Daniel Gibney, Jan-Niklas Boyn, David A. Mazziotti

Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely adopted method in modern computational chemistry, fails to describe accurately the electronic structure of strongly correlated syst…

quant-ph2021★ 36 cited

Quantum-Classical Hybrid Algorithm for the Simulation of All-Electron Correlation

Jan-Niklas Boyn, Aleksandr O. Lykhin, Scott E. Smart +2

While the treatment of chemically relevant systems containing hundreds or even thousands of electrons remains beyond the reach of quantum devices, the development of quantum-classi…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 27 cited

Accurate singlet-triplet gaps in biradicals via the spin averaged anti-Hermitian contracted Schrödinger equation

Jan-Niklas Boyn, David A. Mazziotti

The accurate description of biradical systems, and in particular the resolution of their singlet-triplet gaps, has long posed a major challenge to the development of electronic str…

quant-ph2021★ 44 cited

Resolving Correlated States of Benzyne on a Quantum Computer with an Error-Mitigated Quantum Contracted Eigenvalue Solver

Scott E. Smart, Jan-Niklas Boyn, David A. Mazziotti

The simulation of strongly correlated many-electron systems is one of the most promising applications for near-term quantum devices. Here we use a class of eigenvalue solvers (pres…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 25 cited

Entangled Electrons Drive a non-Superexchange Mechanism in a Cobalt Quinoid Dimer Complex

Jan-Niklas Boyn, Jiaze Xie, John S. Anderson +1

A central theme in chemistry is the understanding of the mechanisms that drive chemical transformations. A well-known, highly cited mechanism in organometallic chemistry is the sup…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 20 cited

Towards a Resolution of the Static Correlation Problem in Density Functional Theory from Semidefinite Programming

Danny Gibney, Jan-Niklas Boyn, David A. Mazziotti

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) has long struggled with the accurate description of strongly correlated and open shell systems and improvements have been minor even in th…