Na2IrO3as a Molecular Orbital Crystal

Diffractive molecular orbital tomography

High harmonic generation in the interaction of femtosecond lasers with atoms and molecules opens the path to molecular orbital tomography and to probe the electronic dynamics with attosecondÅngström resolutions. Molecular orbital tomography requires both the amplitude and phase of the high harmonics. Yet the measurement of phases requires sophisticated techniques and represents formidable chall...

A reaction class approach with the integrated molecular orbital q molecular orbital methodology

Ž . We investigate the use of the reaction-class approach within the integrated molecular q molecular orbital IMOMO methodology for improving energetic information of chemical reactions. We have tested this approach using two classes of hydrogen abstraction reactions. One is abstraction from saturated hydrocarbons and the other from unsaturated hydrocarbons. For saturated hydrocarbon systems, t...

Ab initio molecular orbital theory

Diagnostics of molecular orbital quality

We discuss several measures of the quality of a molecular orbital. Each requires only that the orbital be associated with a well-defined Fock operator and is thus applicable to both Hartree–Fock and density functional orbitals. One of the measures, the g diagnostic, ranges from g = 0 (perfect) to g = p/2 (poor) and is conceptually simple. We illustrate its usefulness by applying it to a number ...

Spin-state splittings, highest-occupied-molecular-orbital and lowest-unoccupied-molecular-orbital energies, and chemical hardness.

It is known that the exact density functional must give ground-state energies that are piecewise linear as a function of electron number. In this work we prove that this is also true for the lowest-energy excited states of different spin or spatial symmetry. This has three important consequences for chemical applications: the ground state of a molecule must correspond to the state with the maxi...