Direct Second Order MCSCF optimization methods
for large CI expansions.
Development of linear and non-linear response
theory for SCF and MCSCF wavefunctions. Calculation of hyperpolarizabilities,
two-photon transition moments and phosphorescence lifetimes using
these methods.
Development of determinant based methods
for full and restricted configuration interaction expansions.
Extensions to relativistic Hamiltonians. Improved methods
for solving eigenvalue problems for very large dimensions. Full
CI benchmark calculations of ground state energies, excitation
energies, equilibrium geometries of ground and excited states,
electric properties and reaction energies.
Finite element methods for atomic MCHF calculations
and their use to obtain accurate nuclear quadrupole moments by
combining experimental quadrupole couplings and computed electric
field gradients.
Development of coupled cluster methods allowing
expansions with arbitrary excitation levels, and the use of these
methods to estimate the contributions from quadruple and higher
excitations to molecular constants and properties.
Proved, first numerically and subsequently
mathematically, that Moller-Plesset perturbation theory in general
is divergent for electron-rich atoms and molecules.
Methods for the direct optimization of the
atomic density matrix. Methods for correlated calculations of
quantum dots.
Systematic calculations of of molecular equilibrium
geometries, reaction enthalpies and atomization energies for small
molecules to establish the accuracy of standard coupled cluster
methods.