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We evaluate embedding potentials, obtained via various methods, used for polarizable embedding computations of excitation energies of para-nitroaniline in water and organic solvents as well as of the green fluorescent protein. We found that isotropic polarizabilities derived from DFTD3 dispersion coefficients correlate well with those obtained via the LoProp method. We show that these polarizabilities in conjunction with appropriately derived point charges are in good agreement with calculations employing static multipole moments up to quadrupoles and anisotropic polarizabilities for both computed systems. The (partial) use of these easily-accessible parameters drastically reduces the computational effort to obtain accurate embedding potentials especially for proteins. © 2016 The Authors. Journal of Computational Chemistry Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

International audience; On the grounds of a hybrid CCSD(T)/B3LYP/aug-cc-pVTZ anharmonic potential and the use of a variational and variational-perturbational methods, the IR spectra of dicyanodiacetylene C6N2 is revisited in the mid-infrared region up to 4500 cm−1. A position and intensity analysis of our theoretical results allow us to assign the fundamental bands together with their combinations and overtones, in the aforementioned range of frequencies. The pure theoretical results are discussed in relation with the pure experimental data. The main objective of this paper is to give an ‘a priori’ complete IR spectrum of C6N2 which can be used as a guide of the low-intensity bands in areas not completely assigned so far.

From an astrochemical point of view ketenimine (CH2CNH) is a complex organic molecule (COM) and therefore likely to be a building block for biologically relevant molecules. Since it has been detected in the star-forming region Sagittarius B2(N), it is of high relevance in this field. Although experimental data are available for certain bands, for some energy ranges such as above 1200 cm-1 reliable data virtually do not exist. In addition, high-level ab initio calculations are neither reported for ketenimine nor for one of its deuterated isotopologues. In this paper, we provide for the first time data from accurate quantum chemical calculations and a thorough analysis of the full rovibrational spectrum. Based on high-level potential energy surfaces obtained from explicitly correlated coupled-cluster calculations including up to 4-mode coupling terms, the (ro)vibrational spectrum of ketenimine has been studied in detail by variational calculations relying on rovibrational configuration interaction (RVCI) theory. Strong Fermi resonances were found for all isotopologues. Rovibrational infrared intensities have been obtained from dipole moment surfaces determined from the distinguishable cluster approximation. A comparison of the spectra of the CH2CNH molecule with experimental data validates our results, but also reveals new insight about the system, which shows very strong Coriolis coupling effects.

The photocyclodimerization mechanisms of two oxo tautomers of uracil and 6-azauracil were studied at the CC2 level of theory and cc-pVDZ basis functions. Uracil was explored in three orientations of the monomers - cis-anti, trans-syn and trans-anti , while 6-azauracil - in all four orientations. Conical intersections S 0 /S 1 were found at the CASSCF(2,2)/6-31G* theoretical level. The study propose a photophysical mechanisms of photoformation and photodestruction of cyclodimers (CDs), which occur through the 1 ππ * electron excited states (spectroscopically bright states). The photophysical relaxations (internal conversions) to the ground states are mediated by conical intersections S 0 /S 1 , which we found and discussed in the current paper.

Marcin Mazdziarz has published a comment on our recent paper by I. Mosyagin, A.V. Lugovskoy, O.M. Krasilnikov, Yu.Kh. Vekilov, S.I. Simak and L.A. Abrikosov titled "Ab initio calculations of pressure dependence of high-order elastic constants using finite deformations approach" [Computer Physics Communications 220 (2017)2030]. The author states that there are serious fundamental errors and flaws. In this reply we clarify all misunderstanding mentioned in the said comment. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V. Funding Agencies|Swedish Research Council [2015-04391, 2014-4750]; Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Functional Materials at Linkoping University [2009 00971]; Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation [K2-2017-080, 14.Y26.31.0005]

The present paper aims at finding optimal parameters for trapping of Cs$_2$ molecules in optical lattices, with the perspective of creating a quantum degenerate gas of ground-state molecules. We have calculated dynamic polarizabilities of Cs$_2$ molecules subject to an oscillating electric field, using accurate potential curves and electronic transition dipole moments. We show that for some particular wavelengths of the optical lattice, called "magic wavelengths", the polarizability of the ground-state molecules is equal to the one of a Feshbach molecule. As the creation of the sample of ground-state molecules relies on an adiabatic population transfer from weakly-bound molecules created on a Feshbach resonance, such a coincidence ensures that both the initial and final states are favorably trapped by the lattice light, allowing optimized transfer in agreement with the experimental observation.

It is well known that present versions of density functional theory do not predict the experimentally observed spin-density wave state to be the ground state of Cr. Recently, a so-called ``nodon model'' has been proposed as an alternative way to reconcile theory and experiment: the ground state of Cr is truly antiferromagnetic, and the spin-density wave appears due to low-lying thermal excitations (``nodons''). We examine in this paper whether the postulated properties of these nodons are reproduced by ab initio calculations.

Item does not contain fulltext Transport properties of molecular junctions are notoriously expensive to calculate with ab initio methods, primarily due to the semi-infinite electrodes. This has led to the introduction of different approximation schemes for the electrodes. For the most popular metals used in experiments, such as gold, the wide-band limit (WBL) is a particularly efficient choice. In this paper, we investigate the performance of different WBL schemes relative to more sophisticated approaches including the fully self-consistent non-equilibrium Green's function method. We find reasonably good agreement between all schemes for systems in which the molecule (and not the metal-molecule interface) dominates the transport properties. Moreover, our implementation of the WBL requires negligible computational effort compared to the ground-state density-functional theory calculation of a molecular junction. We also present a new approximate but efficient scheme for calculating transport with a finite bias. Provided the voltage drop occurs primarily inside the molecule, this method provides results in reasonable agreement with fully self-consistent calculations.