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Antisymmetrized Product of Strongly Orthogonal Geminal (APSG) method

To get a deeper understanding of electronic structure methods, like Hartree-Fock, MP2, and Coupled Cluster method, there are many small programs (codes) available in Python, C++ or Fortran, for ...
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What is Nesbet's theorem?

In a talk by Frank Neese there was a slide with title "Nesbet's theorem" and an equation indicating something like "if your wavefunction has the double excitation amplitudes correct, then you can get ...
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Where can I get potential energy surface for simple molecules?

I'm looking for potential energy functions for simple molecules, such as water or hydrogen sulfide. I only need the region around the equilibrium geometry, preferably as a Taylor series expanded in ...
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Error hunting: Guidelines on detecting error cancellation and locating their sources as much as possible?

It is known in computational chemistry, when computing e.g. electronic ground states energy and geometric paramters (bond lengths, angles, torsions etc.) of a given molecule using an ab initio or DFT ...
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Do modern dispersion-corrected DFT methods give more accurate molecular geometries?

I was discussing with a colleague the use of modern dispersion-corrected density functionals. I take it almost as a given that the methods generally produce "better" (for some definition) geometries, ...
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Tunneling corrections in reaction rates

I've studied Transition State Theory since I asked this a while ago, but so far I have not been able to find a detailed explanation of how tunneling corrections are implemented into reaction rates ...
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DFT Code for Atoms : Sources

Some time ago I implemented the restricted and unrestricted Hartree-Fock methods. I had a lot of fun and I learned a lot. It goes without saying that Szabo and Ostlund's book "Modern Quantum Chemistry"...
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Is it wise to use ECPs on light atoms for electronic structure calculations?

So, I have a big organic molecule consisting of $\ce{H}$, $\ce{C}$, $\ce{O}$, and $\ce{N}$ atoms and the goal is to find its equilibrium geometry and US/Vis spectrum. The molecule is so big that I was ...
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Database for molecular dipole transition moments?

I'm looking for the dipole transition matrix elements for electronic transitions between the ground and excited states of the carbon dioxide cation, $\text{CO}_2^+$, that is, objects like $$\langle\...
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