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ReviewThe journal of physical chemistry. A2025

The Enduring Relevance of Semiempirical Quantum Mechanics.

Jonathan E Moussa

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Review in The journal of physical chemistry. A, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Jonathan E MoussaMolecular Sciences Software Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3701-1830

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of semiempirical models to simplify quantum mechanical descriptions of atomistic systems is a practice that started soon after the discovery of quantum mechanics and continues to the present day. There are now many methods for atomistic simulation with many software implementations and many users on a scale large enough to be considered as a software market. Semiempirical models occupied a large share of this market in its early days, but research activity in atomistic simulation has steadily polarized over the last three decades toward general-purpose but expensive

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PMID40902031
PMCPMC12451668

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