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20152026
most citedRecent developments in the PySCF program package

1.2k citations · 1.9k across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 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.chem-ph2026

Solvation Lies Within: Simulating Condensed-Phase Properties from Local Electronic Structures

Kasper F. Schaltz, Jonas Greiner, Filippo Lipparini +1

In transitions between different environmental settings, a molecular system inevitably undergoes a range of detectable changes, and the ability to accurately simulate such response…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 2 cited

A Reusable Library for Second-Order Orbital Optimization Using the Trust Region Method

Jonas Greiner, Ida-Marie Høyvik, Susi Lehtola +1

We present a reusable, open-source software implementation of the second-order trust region algorithm in the new OpenTrustRegion library. We apply the implementation to the general…

physics.chem-ph2024

Transferability of Atom-Based Neural Networks

Frederik Ø. Kjeldal, Janus J. Eriksen

Machine-learning models in chemistry - when based on descriptors of atoms embedded within molecules - face essential challenges in transferring the quality of predictions of local…

physics.chem-ph2024

Exploiting Non-Abelian Point-Group Symmetry to Estimate the Exact Ground-State Correlation Energy of Benzene in a Polarized Split-Valence Triple-Zeta Basis Set

Jonas Greiner, Jürgen Gauss, Janus J. Eriksen

Local electronic-structure methods in quantum chemistry operate on the ability to compress electron correlations more efficiently in a basis of spatially localized molecular orbita…

physics.chem-ph2024

Atomic Decompositions of Periodic Electronic-Structure Simulations

Luna Zamok, Janus J. Eriksen

We present a new theory for partitioning simulations of periodic and solid-state systems into physically sound atomic contributions at the level of Kohn-Sham density functional the…

physics.chem-ph2024

Error Control and Automatic Detection of Reference Active Spaces in Many-Body Expanded Full Configuration Interaction

Jonas Greiner, Jürgen Gauss, Janus J. Eriksen

We present a wide-reaching revamp of the generalized many-body expanded full configuration interaction (MBE-FCI) method. First, we outline how to automatize the selection of refere…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 13 cited

MBE-CASSCF Approach for the Accurate Treatment of Large Active Spaces

Jonas Greiner, Ivan Gianni, Tommaso Nottoli +3

We present a novel implementation of the complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) method that makes use of the many-body expanded full configuration interaction (MBE-FC…

physics.chem-ph2023

Properties of Local Electronic Structures

Frederik Ø. Kjeldal, Janus J. Eriksen

The simulation of intrinsic contributions to molecular properties holds the potential to allow for chemistry to be directly inferred from changes to electronic structures at the at…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 3 cited

Symmetrization of Localized Molecular Orbitals

Jonas Greiner, Janus J. Eriksen

We present a novel algorithm for (i) detecting approximate symmetries inherently present among spatially localized molecular orbitals and (ii) enforcing these in numerically exact…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 15 cited

Decomposing Chemical Space: Applications to the Machine Learning of Atomic Energies

Frederik Ø. Kjeldal, Janus J. Eriksen

We apply a number of atomic decomposition schemes across the standard QM7 dataset -- a small model set of organic molecules at equilibrium geometry -- to inspect the possible emerg…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 7 cited

Electronic Excitations Through the Prism of Mean-Field Decomposition Techniques

Janus J. Eriksen

The potential of mean-field decomposition techniques in interpreting electronic transitions in molecules is explored, particularly, the usefulness of these for offering computation…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 7 cited

Decomposed Mean-Field Simulations of Local Properties in Condensed Phases

Janus J. Eriksen

The present work demonstrates a robust protocol for probing localized electronic structure in condensed-phase systems, operating in terms of a recently proposed theory for decompos…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 23 cited

Incremental Treatments of the Full Configuration Interaction Problem

Janus J. Eriksen, Jürgen Gauss

The recent many-body expanded full configuration interaction (MBE-FCI) method is reviewed by critically assessing its advantages and drawbacks in the context of contemporary near-e…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 68 cited

The Shape of Full Configuration Interaction to Come

Janus J. Eriksen

We present a perspective on what the future holds for full configuration interaction (FCI) theory, with an emphasis on conceptual rather than technical details. Upon revisiting the…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 14 cited

Mean-Field Density Matrix Decompositions

Janus J. Eriksen

We introduce new and robust decompositions of mean-field Hartree-Fock (HF) and Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) relying on the use of localized molecular orbitals and p…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 19 cited

Ground and Excited State First-Order Properties in Many-Body Expanded Full Configuration Interaction Theory

Janus J. Eriksen, Jürgen Gauss

The recently proposed many-body expanded full configuration interaction (MBE-FCI) method is extended to excited states and static first-order properties different from total, groun…

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-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…

physics.chem-ph2019★ 47 cited

Generalized Many-Body Expanded Full Configuration Interaction Theory

Janus J. Eriksen, Jürgen Gauss

Facilitated by a rigorous partitioning of a molecular system's orbital basis into two fundamental subspaces - a reference and an expansion space, both with orbitals of unspecified…

physics.chem-ph2019★ 60 cited

Many-Body Expanded Full Configuration Interaction. II. Strongly Correlated Regime

Janus J. Eriksen, Jürgen Gauss

In this second part of our series on the recently proposed many-body expanded full configuration interaction (MBE-FCI) method, we introduce the concept of multideterminantal expans…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 62 cited

Many-Body Expanded Full Configuration Interaction. I. Weakly Correlated Regime

Janus J. Eriksen, Jürgen Gauss

Over the course of the past few decades, the field of computational chemistry has managed to manifest itself as a key complement to more traditional lab-oriented chemistry. This is…

physics.chem-ph2017★ 87 cited

Virtual orbital many-body expansions: A possible route towards the full configuration interaction limit

Janus J. Eriksen, Filippo Lipparini, Jürgen Gauss

In the present letter, it is demonstrated how full configuration interaction (FCI) results in extended basis sets may be obtained to within sub-kJ/mol accuracy by decomposing the e…

physics.chem-ph2016★ 27 cited

Efficient and portable acceleration of quantum chemical many-body methods in mixed floating point precision using OpenACC compiler directives

Janus Juul Eriksen

It is demonstrated how the non-proprietary OpenACC standard of compiler directives may be used to compactly and efficiently accelerate the rate-determining steps of two of the most…