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most citedA Mountaineering Strategy to Excited States: Highly-Accurate Energies and Benchmarks for Medium Size Molecules

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physics.chem-ph2025★ 23 cited

The QUEST Database of Highly-Accurate Excitation Energies

Pierre-François Loos, Martial Boggio-Pasqua, Aymeric Blondel +2

We report theoretical best estimates of vertical transition energies (VTEs) for a large number of excited states and molecules: the \textsc{quest} database. This database includes…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 1 cited

Reference Energies for Double Excitations: Improvement and Extension

Fábris Kossoski, Martial Boggio-Pasqua, Pierre-François Loos +1

In the realm of photochemistry, the significance of double excitations (also known as doubly-excited states), where two electrons are concurrently elevated to higher energy levels,…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 18 cited

Reference Vertical Excitation Energies for Transition Metal Compounds

Denis Jacquemin, Fábris Kossoski, Franck Gam +2

To enrich and enhance the diversity of the \textsc{quest} database of highly-accurate excitation energies [\href{https://doi.org/10.1002/wcms.1517}{Véril \textit{et al.}, \textit{W…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 14 cited

Benchmarking CASPT3 Vertical Excitation Energies

Martial Boggio-Pasqua, Denis Jacquemin, Pierre-François Loos

Based on 280 reference vertical transition energies of various natures (singlet, triplet, valence, Rydberg, , , and double excitations) extracted from the QUEST d…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 28 cited

Reference Energies for Cyclobutadiene: Automerization and Excited States

Enzo Monino, Martial Boggio-Pasqua, Anthony Scemama +2

Cyclobutadiene is a well-known playground for theoretical chemists and is particularly suitable to test ground- and excited-state methods. Indeed, due to its high spatial symmetry,…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 85 cited

Assessing the Performances of CASPT2 and NEVPT2 for Vertical Excitation Energies

Rudraditya Sarkar, Pierre-François Loos, Martial Boggio-Pasqua +1

Methods able to simultaneously account for both static and dynamic electron correlations have often been employed, not only to model photochemical events, but also to provide refer…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 160 cited

QUESTDB: a database of highly-accurate excitation energies for the electronic structure community

Mickaël Véril, Anthony Scemama, Michel Caffarel +4

We describe our efforts of the past few years to create a large set of more than 500 highly-accurate vertical excitation energies of various natures (, , doubl…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 217 cited

Benchmarking TD-DFT and Wave Function Methods for Oscillator Strengths and Excited-State Dipole Moments

Rudraditya Sarkar, Martial Boggio-Pasqua, Pierre-François Loos +1

Using a set of oscillator strengths and excited-state dipole moments of near full configuration interaction (FCI) quality determined for small compounds, we benchmark the performan…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 106 cited

A Mountaineering Strategy to Excited States: Highly-Accurate Energies and Benchmarks for Exotic Molecules and Radicals

Pierre-François Loos, Anthony Scemama, Martial Boggio-Pasqua +1

Aiming at completing the sets of FCI-quality transition energies that we recently developed (\textit{J.~Chem.~Theory Comput.} \textbf{14} (2018) 4360--4379, \textit{ibid.}~\textbf{…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 241 cited

A Mountaineering Strategy to Excited States: Highly-Accurate Energies and Benchmarks for Medium Size Molecules

Pierre-François Loos, Filippo Lipparini, Martial Boggio-Pasqua +2

Following our previous work focussing on compounds containing up to 3 non-hydrogen atoms [\emph{J. Chem. Theory Comput.} {\bfseries 14} (2018) 4360--4379], we present here highly-a…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 195 cited

Reference Energies for Double Excitations

Pierre-François Loos, Martial Boggio-Pasqua, Anthony Scemama +2

Excited states exhibiting double excitation character are notoriously difficult to model using conventional single-reference methods, such as adiabatic time-dependent density-funct…

physics.chem-ph2017★ 57 cited

Assessing Excited State Energy Gaps with Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory on Ru(II) Complexes

Andrew J. Atkins, Francesco Talotta, Leon Freitag +2

A set of density functionals coming from different rungs on Jacob's ladder are employed to evaluate the electronic excited states of three Ru(II) complexes. While most studies on t…

physics.chem-ph2016★ 120 cited

Relaxation Dynamics in Photoexcited Chiral Molecules Studied by Time-Resolved Photoelectron Circular Dichroism: Toward Chiral Femtochemistry

Antoine Comby, Samuel Beaulieu, Martial Boggio-Pasqua +8

Unravelling the main initial dynamics responsible for chiral recognition is a key stepin the understanding of many biological processes. However this challenging task requires a se…