1.3.9 New Features in Q-Chem 4.3

Analytic derivative couplings (i.e., nonadiabatic couplings) between electronic states computed at the CIS, spin-flip CIS, TDDFT, and spin-flip TDDFT levels (S. Fatehi, Q. Ou, J. E. Subotnik, X. Zhang, J. M. Herbert); Section 9.9.

A third-generation (“+D3”) dispersion potential for XSAPT (K. U. Lao, J. M. Herbert); Section 12.14.

Non-equilibrium PCM for computing vertical excitation energies (at the TDDFT level) and ionization energies in solution (Z.-Q. You, J. M. Herbert); Section 11.2.3.3.

Spin-orbit couplings between electronic states for CC and EOM-CC wave functions (E. Epifanovsky, J. Gauss, A. I. Krylov); Section 7.10.20.4.

PARI-K method for evaluation of exact exchange, which affords dramatic speed-ups for triple-$\zeta$ and larger basis sets in hybrid DFT calculations (S. Manzer, M. Head-Gordon).

Transition moments and cross sections for two-photon absorption using EOM-CC wave functions (K. Nanda, A. I. Krylov); Section 7.10.20.6.

New excited-state analysis for ADC and CC/EOM-CC methods (M. Wormit); Section 10.2.9).

New Dyson orbital code for EOM-IP-CCSD and EOM-EA-CCSD (A. Gunina and A. I. Krylov; Section 7.10.27).

Transition moments, state dipole moments, and Dyson orbitals for CAP-EOM-CCSD (T.-C. Jagau and A. I. Krylov; Sections 7.10.9 and 7.10.27).

TAO-DFT: Thermally-assisted-occupation density functional theory (J.-D. Chai; Section 5.12.3).

MP2[V], a dual basis method that approximates the MP2 energy (J. Deng and A. Gilbert).

Iterative Hirshfeld population analysis for charged systems, and CM5 semi-empirical charge scheme (K. U. Lao and J. M. Herbert; Section 10.2.2).

New DFT functionals: (Section 5.3):

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  Long-range corrected functionals with empirical dispersion-: $\omega$M05-D, $\omega$B97X-D3 and $\omega$M06-D3 (Y.-S. Lin, K. Hui, and J.-D. Chai.

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  PBE0_DH and PBE0_2 double-hybrid functionals (K. Hui and J.-D. Chai; Section 5.9).

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  AK13 (K. Hui and J.-D. Chai).

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  LFAs asymptotic correction scheme (P.-T. Fang and J.-D. Chai).

LDA/GGA fundamental gap using a frozen-orbital approximation (K. Hui and J.-D. Chai; Section 5.12.2).