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20222026
most citedAnalytical harmonic vibrational frequencies with VV10-containing density functionals: Theory, efficient implementation, and benchmark assessments

15 citations · 22 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Efficient, precise DFT calculations of NMR shieldings: Revisiting the finite field approach

Xiao Liu, Kaushik D. Nanda, Jiashu Liang +1

Absolute nuclear magnetic shielding constants and relative chemical shifts are second-derivative response properties that underpin the interpretation of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance…

physics.chem-ph2026

THEMol dataset: Torsion, Hessian, and Energy of Molecules

Jiashu Liang, Tianze Zheng, Yu Xia +13

We present THEMol (Torsion, Hessian, Energy of Molecules), a massive open-source collection of quantum mechanical properties tailored for closed-shell organic molecules, with up to…

cs.AI2026

Agentic Discovery of Exchange-Correlation Density Functionals

Titouan Duston, Jiashu Liang, Yuanheng Wang +6

The development of accurate exchange-correlation (XC) functionals remains a longstanding challenge in density functional theory (DFT). The vast majority of XC functionals have been…

physics.chem-ph2026★ 1 cited

Reaching for the performance limit of hybrid density functional theory for molecular chemistry

Jiashu Liang, Martin Head-Gordon

Density functional theory (DFT) offers an exceptional balance between accuracy and efficiency, but practical density functional approximations face an unavoidable trade-off among s…

quant-ph2026★ 1 cited

QDK/Chemistry: A Modular Toolkit for Quantum Chemistry Applications

Nathan A. Baker, Brian Bilodeau, Chi Chen +23

We present QDK/Chemistry, a software toolkit for quantum chemistry workflows targeting quantum computers. The toolkit addresses a key challenge in the field: while quantum algorith…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Gold-Standard Chemical Database 137 (GSCDB137): A diverse set of accurate energy differences for assessing and developing density functionals

Jiashu Liang, Martin Head-Gordon

We present GSCDB137, a rigorously curated benchmark library of 137 data sets (8377 entries) covering main-group and transition-metal reaction energies and barrier heights, (intramo…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 1 cited

Earth Mover's Distance as a metric to evaluate the extent of charge transfer in excitations using discretized real-space densities

Zhe Wang, Jiashu Liang, Martin Head-Gordon

This paper presents a novel theoretical measure, , based on the Earth Mover's Distance, for quantifying the density shift caused by electronic excitations in molecu…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 1 cited

Highly Accurate Prediction of NMR Chemical Shifts from Low-Level Quantum Mechanics Calculations Using Machine Learning

Jie Li, Jiashu Liang, Zhe Wang +5

Theoretical predictions of NMR chemical shifts from first-principles can greatly facilitate experimental interpretation and structure identification. However, accurate prediction o…

physics.chem-ph2022

Efficient Calculation of NMR Shielding Constants Using Composite Method Approximations and Locally Dense Basis Sets

Jiashu Liang, Zhe Wang, Jie Li +5

This paper presents a systematic study of applying composite method approximations with locally dense basis sets (LDBS) to efficiently calculate NMR shielding constants in small an…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 15 cited

Analytical harmonic vibrational frequencies with VV10-containing density functionals: Theory, efficient implementation, and benchmark assessments

Jiashu Liang, Xintian Feng, Martin Head-Gordon

VV10 is a powerful nonlocal density functional for long-range correlation that is used to include dispersion effects in many modern density functionals such as the meta-generalized…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 2 cited

Revisiting the performance of time-dependent density functional theory for electronic excitations: Assessment of 43 popular and recently developed functionals from rungs one to four

Jiashu Liang, Xintian Feng, Diptarka Hait +1

In this paper, the performance of more than 40 popular or recently developed density functionals is assessed for the calculation of 463 vertical excitation energies against the lar…