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Increasing the particle-field interaction length scale permits the use of larger time steps and coarser grids. This promotes the use of multiple time step strategies over the quasi-instantaneous approximation, which is found to not conserve energy and momenta equally well. Finally, our investigations of the structural and dynamic properties of simple monoatomic systems show a consistent behavior between the present formulation and Gaussian core models.Advances in nanophotonics, quantum optics, and low-dimensional materials have enabled precise control of light-matter interactions down to the nanoscale. Combining concepts from each of these fields, there is now an opportunity to create and manipulate photonic matter via strong coupling of molecules to the electromagnetic field. Toward this goal, here we demonstrate a first principles framework to calculate polaritonic excited-state potential-energy surfaces, transition dipole moments, and transition densities for strongly coupled light-matter systems. CGS 21680 chemical structure In particular, we demonstrate the applicability of our methodology by calculating the polaritonic excited-state manifold of a formaldehyde molecule strongly coupled to an optical cavity. This proof-of-concept calculation shows how strong coupling can be exploited to alter photochemical reaction pathways by influencing avoided crossings with tuning of the cavity frequency and coupling strength. Therefore, by introducing an ab initio method to calculate excited-state potential-energy surfaces, our work opens a new avenue for the field of polaritonic chemistry.We present a near-linear scaling formulation of the explicitly correlated coupled-cluster singles and doubles with the perturbative triples method [CCSD(T)F12¯] for high-spin states of open-shell species. The approach is based on the conventional open-shell CCSD formalism [M. Saitow et al., J. Chem. Phys. 146, 164105 (2017)] utilizing the domain local pair-natural orbitals (DLPNO) framework. The use of spin-independent set of pair-natural orbitals ensures exact agreement with the closed-shell formalism reported previously, with only marginally impact on the cost (e.g., the open-shell formalism is only 1.5 times slower than the closed-shell counterpart for the C160H322 n-alkane, with the measured size complexity of ≈1.2). Evaluation of coupled-cluster energies near the complete-basis-set (CBS) limit for open-shell systems with more than 550 atoms and 5000 basis functions is feasible on a single multi-core computer in less than 3 days. The aug-cc-pVTZ DLPNO-CCSD(T)F12¯ contribution to the heat of formation for the 50 largest molecules among the 348 core combustion species benchmark set [J. Klippenstein et al., J. Phys. Chem. A 121, 6580-6602 (2017)] had root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) from the extrapolated CBS CCSD(T) reference values of 0.3 kcal/mol. For a more challenging set of 50 reactions involving small closed- and open-shell molecules [G. Knizia et al., J. Chem. Phys. 130, 054104 (2009)], the aug-cc-pVQ(+d)Z DLPNO-CCSD(T)F12¯ yielded a RMSD of ∼0.4 kcal/mol with respect to the CBS CCSD(T) estimate.This Perspective presents a survey of several issues in ab initio valence bond (VB) theory with a primary focus on recent advances made by the Xiamen VB group, including a brief review of the earlier history of the ab initio VB methods, in-depth discussion of algorithms for nonorthogonal orbital optimization in the VB self-consistent field method and VB methods incorporating dynamic electron correlation, along with a concise overview of VB methods for complex systems and VB models for chemical bonding and reactivity, and an outlook of opportunities and challenges for the near future of the VB theory.The kinetics of the inner-sphere electron transfer reaction between a gold electrode and CO2 was measured as a function of the applied potential in an aqueous environment. Extraction of the electron transfer rate constant requires deconvolution of the current associated with CO2 reduction from the competing hydrogen evolution reaction and mass transport. Analysis of the inner-sphere electron transfer reaction reveals a driving force dependence of the rate constant that has similar characteristics to that of a Marcus-Hush-Levich outer-sphere electron transfer model. Consideration of simple assumptions for CO2 adsorption on the electrode surface allows for the evaluation of a CO2,ads/CO2•-ads standard potential of ∼-0.75 ± 0.05 V vs Standard Hydrogen Electrode (SHE) and a reorganization energy on the order of 0.75 ± 0.10 eV. This standard potential is considerably lower than that observed for CO2 reduction on planar metal electrodes (∼>-1.4 V vs SHE for >10 mA/cm2), thus indicating that CO2 reduction occurs at a significant overpotential and thus provides an imperative for the design of better CO2 reduction electrocatalysts.Entropy has become increasingly central to characterize, understand, and even guide assembly, self-organization, and phase transition processes. In this work, we build on the analogous role of partition functions (or free energies) in isothermal ensembles and that of entropy in adiabatic ensembles. In particular, we show that the grand-isobaric adiabatic (μ, P, R) ensemble, or Ray ensemble, provides a direct route to determine the entropy. This allows us to follow the variations of entropy with the thermodynamic conditions and thus explore phase transitions. We test this approach by carrying out Monte Carlo simulations on argon and copper in bulk phases and at phase boundaries. We assess the reliability and accuracy of the method through comparisons with the results from flat-histogram simulations in isothermal ensembles and with the experimental data. Advantages of the approach are multifold and include the direct determination of the μ-P relation, without any evaluation of pressure via the virial expression, the precise control of the system size (number of atoms) via the input value of R, and the straightforward computation of enthalpy differences for isentropic processes, which are key quantities to determine the efficiency of thermodynamic cycles. A new insight brought by these simulations is the highly symmetric pattern exhibited by both systems along the transition, as shown by scaled temperature-entropy and pressure-entropy plots.