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Enhancing molecular dynamics with equivariant machine-learned densities

Mihail Bogojeski, Muhammad R. Hasyim, Leslie Vogt-Maranto, Klaus-Robert Muller, Kieron Burke, Mark E. Tuckerman ยท 2026

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have enabled molecular dynamics at near ab initio accuracy, yet remain limited to energies and forces by construction, leaving electronic observables suโ€ฆ

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Engineering molecular potential energy surfaces using magnetic cavity quantum electrodynamics

Lukas Weber, Leonardo dos Anjos Cunha, Johannes Flick, Shiwei Zhang ยท 2026

We investigate the effects of coupling a quantum-magnetic cavity field to molecules. Our high-precision auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo calculations capture the effect of the cavity field in the pโ€ฆ

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Spin-cavity interactions in relativistic Jahn-Teller systems under strong light-matter coupling

Eric W. Fischer, Michael Roemelt ยท 2026

We extend our recent work on the cavity-modified spin Zeeman effect of an effective spin-1/2-system[J. Chem. Phys. 163, 174307 (2025)] to a relativistic Jahn-Teller scenario under strong light-matter โ€ฆ

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Ensemble density functional theory of excited states: Exact N-centered formalism and practical opportunities

Lucien Dupuy, Toni Chiti, Jeremy Morere, Emmanuel Fromager ยท 2026

Ground-state electronic structure calculations using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) offer an unprecedented balance between efficiency and accuracy, now paradigmatic to the fields of quanโ€ฆ

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Experimental proof of strong $\Pi$-$\Sigma$ mixing in the Renner-Teller and Pseudo-Jahn-Teller affected CCH$^+$ ($^3\Pi$) ion

Kim Steenbakkers, P. Bryan Changala, Weslley G. D. P. Silva, John F. Stanton, Filippo Lipparini, Jurgen Gauss, Oskar Asvany, Gerrit C. Groenenboom, Britta Redlich, Stephan Schlemmer, Sandra Brunken ยท 2026

The ethynyl radical cation, CCH$^+$ ($^3\Pi$), offers a unique system for fundamental spectroscopic studies of non-adiabatic effects due to its open-shell linear structure and the presence of a low-lyโ€ฆ

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PyGSC: A Python tool for correcting Kohn-Sham orbital energies by mitigating the delocalization error of density functional approximations

Zipeng An, Xiaolong Yang, Xiao Zheng, Weitao Yang ยท 2026

Density functional approximations (DFAs) suffer from delocalization error, which limits their accuracy in predicting electron affinities (EAs), ionization potentials (IPs), and quasiparticle energies.โ€ฆ

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Implementation of the multigrid Gaussian-Plane-Wave algorithm with GPU acceleration in PySCF

Rui Li, Xing Zhang, Qiming Sun, Yuanheng Wang, Junjie Yang, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan ยท 2026

We introduce a GPU-accelerated multigrid Gaussian-Plane-Wave density fitting (FFTDF) approach for efficient Fock builds and nuclear gradient evaluations within Kohn-Sham density functional theory, as โ€ฆ

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A unified variational framework for the inverse Kohn-Sham problem

Nan Sheng ยท 2026

The inverse Kohn-Sham (KS) problem seeks a local effective potential whose noninteracting ground state reproduces a prescribed electron density. Existing inversion formulations are often expressed in โ€ฆ

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Exact density-functional theory as parallel ensemble variational hierarchies: from Lieb's formulation to Kohn-Sham theory

Nan Sheng ยท 2026

Exact density-functional theory is reconstructed here from its convex variational structure as two parallel exact ensemble hierarchies: an interacting hierarchy rooted in Lieb's ensemble formulation aโ€ฆ

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Stable, Fast, and Accurate Kohn-Sham Inversion in Gaussian Basis for Open Shell Molecular and Condensed Phase Systems via Density Matrix Penalization

Ziwei Chai, Sandra Luber ยท 2026

Here we present a density matrix based KS inversion method formulated entirely within a Gaussian basis representation to optimize a KS potential matrix that reproduces a target electron density. Inverโ€ฆ

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Velocity Gauge for Oscillator Strength in $\Delta$SCF theory

Yang Shen, Yichen Fan, Weitao Yang ยท 2026

Delta self-consistent-field ($\Delta$SCF) theory is widely used for electronic excitation energy calculations. However, calculating the corresponding oscillator strengths is challenging. The corresponโ€ฆ

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On the performance of QTP functionals applied to second-order response properties II: Dynamic polarizability and long-range C$_6$ coefficients

Rodrigo A. Mendes, Peter R. Franke, Ajith Perera, Rodney J. Bartlett ยท 2026

This work is the second in the series "On the performance of QTP functionals applied to second-order response properties." In the first paper (J. Chem. Phys. 162, 054105, 2025), we demonstrated the goโ€ฆ

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Systematically Improvable Numerical Atomic Orbital Basis Using Contracted Truncated Spherical Waves

Yike Huang, Zuxin Jin, Linfeng Zhang, Mohan Chen, Rui Chen, Ling Li ยท 2026

To solve the Kohn-Sham equation within the framework of density functional theory, we develop a scheme to construct numerical atomic orbital (NAO) basis sets by contracting truncated spherical waves (โ€ฆ

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Note on a rigorous derivation of self-consistent double-hybrid functional theory via generalized Kohn-Sham theory and cumulant approximation

Lan Nguyen Tran ยท 2026

In this short note, we present a rigorous derivation of the one-body double-hybrid density functional (OBDHF) theory, a self-consistent double-hybrid density functional framework that unifies the geneโ€ฆ

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Why Projection-Based DMRG-in-DFT Cannot Be Exact, Even with the Exact Exchange-Correlation Functional

Enzo Monino, Daria Drwal, Micha{l} Hapka, Libor Veis, Katarzyna Pernal ยท 2026

We establish the theoretical foundations for embedding a correlated wave function in an environment formed by Kohn-Sham orbitals. We show that introducing an approximation which equates two, in princiโ€ฆ

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Semi-Local Exchange-Correlation Approximations in Density Functional Theory

Fabien Tran, Susi Lehtola, Stefano Pittalis, Miguel A. L. Marques ยท 2026

Density functional theory is the workhorse of modern electronic structure calculations, with wide-ranging applications in chemistry, physics, materials science, and machine learning. At its heart liesโ€ฆ

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A Unified Formulation for $\langle \hat{S}^2 \rangle $ in Two-Component TDDFT

Xiaoyu Zhang ยท 2026

Two-component linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) provides a unified framework that encompasses noncollinear excitations in noncollinear reference states, as well as both โ€ฆ

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Machine learning electronic structure and atomistic properties from the external potential

Jigyasa Nigam, Tess Smidt, Genevieve Dusson ยท 2026

Electronic structure calculations remain a major bottleneck in atomistic simulations and, not surprisingly, have attracted significant attention in machine learning (ML). Most existing approaches learโ€ฆ

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Eliminating Delocalization Error through Localized Orbital Scaling Correction with Orbital Relaxation from Linear Response

Yichen Fan, Jincheng Yu, Jiayi Du, Weitao Yang ยท 2026

Despite the great success Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) has achieved, the delocalization error remains a major challenge for commonly used density functional approximations (DFAs), resuโ€ฆ

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Multilevel DFT Response Theory

Alberto Barlini, Julien Bloino, Henrik Koch, Tommaso Giovannini ยท 2026

We present a general computational protocol for the evaluation of extensive molecular response properties in complex environments within a polarizable quantum embedding framework. The approach extendsโ€ฆ

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