Questions tagged [orbitals]
For questions about properties and types of orbitals
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Modify ORCA orbitals for CASSCF
I have run a HF calculation on naphthalene and I have checked the MOs that have been obtained. Now, I have to select my active and inactive orbitals for CASCF(10,10). As there are 34 occupied orbitals,...
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Confused by NBO output, due to missing bonds
I'm about to do an NBO analysis to evaluate bond characteristics in a novel transition-metal complex.
As I have never done anything like that, I tried to understand the basic output for an octahedral ...
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Orthonormality of Kohn-Sham orbitals
I was wondering if Kohn-Sham orbitals corresponding to a different Bloch wavevector should be orthogonal? I know that we should have $$\int d \boldsymbol{r}\phi_i(\boldsymbol{r}) \phi_j^*(\boldsymbol{...
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Orbital space clustering
I am interested in how the orbital space of a system can be partitioned into clusters.
I read reading 'Cluster many-body expansion: A many-body expansion of the electron correlation energy about a ...
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Molecular orbitals and active space
During the same minute as asking this question, I also asked this at Quantum Computing SE.
In Qiskit, each qubit corresponds to one spin orbital. For example, the $\ce{N2}$ molecule would have 10 ...
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Predict the density of states (DOS) diagram for rhenium oxide (ReO3) from the molecular orbital diagram
Yesterday I made this query on Chemistry Stack Exchange, and a user has felt that perhaps here I will get a quicker answer.
The structure of rhenium(VI) oxide, $\ce{ReO3}$, is similar to that of ...
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Is the number of basis functions same in the different atoms in the 6-31G basis set?
I'm now studying the quantum chemistry calculation and Gaussian basis set.
For example, when using the 6-31G basis set,
the C atom has 6 basis functions in 1s orbital:
3+1=4 in $2s$,
3+1=4 in $2p_x$,
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Critical difference and roles of Slater- and Gaussian-type orbitals
I was very interested in the following question and answer about the Slater- and Gaussian-type orbitals (STO and GTO) used in quantum chemistry and a practical calculation.
Gaussian-type orbitals vs ...
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How to calculate and plot localised orbitals with xTB?
The question is similar to How to calculate/plot molecular orbitals with XTB? Hence we can produce molden files from xTB calculations, which include the molecular orbitals. How do I proceed to get ...
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Is there a software package to analyse interactions in crystals? [closed]
I have been using Quantum ESPRESSO, specifically the pp.x module to
study interactions via charge density plots. The process is slow as
for crystals containing ...
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Kinetic energy cut-off for Gaussian-type orbitals when applying periodic boundary conditions [duplicate]
I have a solid with PBC (periodic boundary conditions) and I want to perform a DFT simulation. I use GTO as the basis. In a paper I read, I can transform the GTO to a Bloch function (crystalline ...
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How can I implement the Cartesian harmonics?
I'm studying the quantum chemistry calculation and now trying to implement the basic methods.
For example, given a water molecule,
$M = {(\ce{O}, R_\ce{O}), (\ce{H}, R_\ce{H}), (\ce{H}, R_\ce{H})}$,
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Gaussian-type orbitals vs Slater-type orbitals in terms of computational efficiency
When creating molecular orbitals via the linear combination of atomic orbitals method I am told that Slater orbitals provide a more accurate representation whilst Gaussian orbitals are computationally ...
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How can I calculate and plot the molecular orbitals (MO's) from the Gaussian wavefunction file?
This a follow-up question to my previous question. And as per the answer one could create M.O orbitals from the primitives.
As a new user of Gaussian, is there any method (or algorithm) to followed so ...
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How do I interpret the Gaussian16 wavefunction file?
I'm new to gaussian16. The wave function file that I obtain as a result of the "Energy" calculation. It consists of five distinct parts :
PART 1 :
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How to get the .47 file from ORCA for natural bonding orbital analysis
I am trying to perform NBO analysis with relaxed density matrix with the open-source program JANPA. I am following the guide here. The first step is to get the NBO input .47 file from Orca v4.2.1. The ...
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How are molecular orbitals constructed from the coefficients and basis set?
When an SCF calculation is done in a QM program, the MO coefficients of the solution are printed into the output. Now, graphical softwares can plot 3D molecular orbitals from these coefficients, ...
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How to calculate/plot molecular orbitals with XTB?
I started playing with the XTB program (XTB is developed by Prof. Grimme group's, is based on tight binding and uses the GFN force field).
Question: How can I calculate/plot the molecular orbitals?
I ...
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Is there any relation between static correlation and finite-temperature smearing?
I am new to this field, so there is a chance that I am mixing two entirely different concepts together, but it seems to be that static correlation and finite-temperature smearing in DFT are somehow ...
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Unresolvable inconsistency between charge and multiplicity and orbital occupancies. Error while Distance Scan [closed]
I get the message mentioned in the title after a distance scan with a Gaussian calculation. I have bound a gold atom to a carbon in the pyridine ring and now pull this further and further out with a ...
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What is the difference between orbital localisation and NBO?
I am new to computational chemistry, I have used mainly GAMESS and Orca. In GAMESS, there are orbital localisation schemes like Pipek-Mezey, Ruedenberg-Edminston, etc. which generate orbitals that ...
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How to interpret molden AO/MO coefficients?
A simple calculation with Molpro 2012 on H2 molecule in cc-pvtz basis produces a molden file with 28 molecular orbitals. Each MO is defined with 30 AO/MO coefficient, but the number of symmetric AOs ...
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Plotting of natural bond orbitals (NBOs)
Which quantum chemistry programs can compute natural bond orbitals (NBOs)? Which visualisation tools can I use subsequently to plot pictures of the NBOs?
