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Do we know for sure that all atomic and molecular wavefunctions decay exponentially as r goes to infinity?

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Choice of coordinate system for geometry optimization

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Is it right to neglect very small imaginary frequencies?

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How reactivity of a organic molecule depends upon HOMO and LUMO

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How do we know how much computational power is required for a particular calculation?

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Keesom and Debye forces in DFT

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What does machine learning learn about DFT?

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What are the physical reasons if the SCF doesn't converge?

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Why is my ORCA calculation of nitrogen iodide failing?

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What is the minimum basis set one should use?

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How do you incorporate hydrogen bonding into molecular simulations?

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How can I learn LaTeX?

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Why is uncertainty not a big problem in computational chemistry?

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Are there any benchmark test sets for UV-vis absorption maxima?

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Can DFT simulate chemical reactions?

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Simulating autoionization of small molecules using DFT or AIMD

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What are the advantages of the Davidson diagonalization method over other sparse matrix diagonalization methods?

10 votes

MD: How to estimate number of timesteps to converge a property

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Does the spin polarised DFT calculation mean broken time reversal symmetry?

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Convert reduced density matrix from M.O. to A.O. basis

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Can the dehydrogenation energy be negative?

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Is it possible to calculate the pka value of different H atoms on one molecule?

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Are density functionals distributive over densities?

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How to explain to a five year old why "DFT with local exchange–correlation functionals do(es) not describe van der Waals interactions accurately"?

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Analytic gradient and hessian for B3LYP

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How accurate is DFTB+ in reproducing DFT result?

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How spin-orbit coupling makes spin-forbidden reactions possible?

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How is the zero energy defined for molecular orbitals?

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Is there a sequence/sum of commonly used, closed-form "DFT functional"s that mathematically converges to the exact exchange-correlation potential?

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Is It possible to do microkinetic modelling for liquid phase reactions, in the presence of a catalyst?