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  • Basic Things of Multiconfigurational Wavefunction Methods

    Speaker: Professor Takeshi Yanai
    Institute: Nagoya University
    Country: Japan
    Speaker Link: https://www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/members/t-yanai/
    Time: 11:00 CET 21-Feb-22

    Professor Takeshi Yanai

    Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University, Japan

    Multireference (MR) or multiconfigurational (MC) nature often need be considered for properly characterizing molecular electronic structures. It arises from, for example, excited state, transition-state geometries, or transition-metal complexes. The MR wavefunction cannot be accounted for by the single-determinant theory but with special computational approaches that can handle a superposition of multiple determinants to form a single state. In this lecture, the basics of the multireference or multiconfigurational quantum chemical methods will be overviewed, including techniques and algorithms for modeling of the higly-correlated many-electron wavefunctions.

    References:

    (i) Helgaker, T., Jorgensen, P., & Olsen, J. (2014). Molecular electronic-structure theory. John Wiley & Sons.

    (ii) T. Yanai, M. Saitow, X.-G. Xiong, Y. Kurashige, J. Chalupský, S. Guo, and S. Sharma, “Multi-state complete active-space second-order perturbation theory with density matrix renormalization group reference wave functions,” J. Chem. Theory Comput. 13 (10), pp 4829–4840 (2017).

    (iii) T. Yanai, Y. Kurashige, W. Mizukami, J. Chalupský, T. N. Lan, and M. Saitow, “Density matrix renormalization group for ab initio Calculations and associated dynamic correlation methods: A review of theory and applications,” Int. J. Quantum Chem. 115, 283-299 (2015)