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Stephan P. A. Sauer

Stephan P. A. Sauer

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D-Index
53
Citations
12262
World Ranking
12955
National Ranking
109

Overview

Stephan P. A. Sauer is a researcher affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their scientific contributions primarily focus on the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Chemistry.

The researcher's work spans several subfields, including:

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Spectroscopy
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Molecular Biology
  • Materials Chemistry

Key topics explored in their research are:

  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Molecular spectroscopy and chirality
  • Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography

Sauer has published extensively, contributing to various scientific journals. The most frequent venues include:

  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • PubMed
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Among recent publications attributed to or involving Sauer's research are:

  • Dalton Project: A Python platform for molecular- and electronic-structure simulations of complex systems, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The Second-Order-Polarization-Propagator-Approximation (SOPPA) in a four-component spinor basis, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • On the Unexpected Accuracy of the M06L Functional in the Calculation of 1JFC Spin-Spin Coupling Constants, 2021, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Free Molecule Studies by Perturbed γ−γ Angular Correlation: A New Path to Accurate Nuclear Quadrupole Moments, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Benchmarking Correlated Methods for Frequency-Dependent Polarizabilities: Aromatic Molecules with the CC3, CCSD, CC2, SOPPA, SOPPA(CC2), and SOPPA(CCSD) Methods, 2020, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including Sonia Coriani, Jacob Kongsted, Erik Rosendahl Kjellgren, Peter Reinholdt, and Karl Michael Ziems.

Best Publications

  • The Dalton quantum chemistry program system

    Kestutis Aidas;Celestino Angeli;Keld L. Bak;Vebjørn Bakken

  • Benchmarks for electronically excited states: CASPT2, CC2, CCSD, and CC3

    Marko Schreiber;Mario R. Silva-Junior;Stephan P. A. Sauer;Walter Thiel

  • Dalton, a molecular electronic structure program

    H. Agren;David John. Wilson;O. Vahtras;P. R. Taylor

  • Benchmarks for electronically excited states: Time-dependent density functional theory and density functional theory based multireference configuration interaction

    Mario R. Silva-Junior;Marko Schreiber;Stephan P. A. Sauer;Walter Thiel

  • Correlated calculations of indirect nuclear spin-spin coupling constants using second-order polarization propagator approximations: SOPPA and SOPPA(CCSD)

    Thomas Enevoldsen;Jens Oddershede;Stephan P. A. Sauer

  • Benchmarks of electronically excited states: basis set effects on CASPT2 results.

    Mario R. Silva-Junior;Marko Schreiber;Stephan P. A. Sauer;Walter Thiel

  • The effect of lone pairs and electronegativity on the indirect nuclear spin–spin coupling constants in CH2X (X=CH2, NH, O, S): Ab initio calculations using optimized contracted basis sets

    Patricio Federico Provasi;Gustavo Adolfo Aucar;Stephan P. A. Sauer

  • Dalton, a molecular electronic structure program, Release Dalton2011

    C Angeli;K. L. Bak;V. Bakken;O. Christiansen

  • Second-order polarization propagator approximation with coupled-cluster singles and doubles amplitudes - SOPPA(CCSD): the polarizability and hyperpolarizability of

    Stephan P A Sauer

  • Basis set effects on coupled cluster benchmarks of electronically excited states: CC3, CCSDR(3) and CC2

    Mario R. Silva-Junior;Stephan P.A. Sauer;Marko Schreiber;Walter Thiel

  • Atomic integral driven second order polarization propagator calculations of the excitation spectra of naphthalene and anthracene

    Keld L. Bak;Henrik Koch;Jens Oddershede;Ove Christiansen

  • Molecular Electromagnetism: A Computational Chemistry Approach

    Stephan P. A. Sauer

  • Benchmarks for Electronically Excited States: A Comparison of Noniterative and Iterative Triples Corrections in Linear Response Coupled Cluster Methods: CCSDR(3) versus CC3.

    Stephan P. A. Sauer;Marko Schreiber;Mario R. Silva-Junior;Walter Thiel

  • Ab Initio Calculation of the Electronic Spectrum of Azobenzene Dyes and Its Impact on the Design of Optical Data Storage Materials

    Per-Olof Åstrand;P. S. Ramanujam;Søren Hvilsted;and Keld L. Bak

  • Nuclear spin–spin coupling in the acetylene isotopomers calculated from ab initio correlated surfaces for 1J(C, H), 1J(C, C), 2J(C, H), and 3J(H, H)

    Richard D. Wigglesworth;William T. Raynes;Sheela Kirpekar;J. Oddershede

  • Substituent Effects on Scalar 2J(19F,19F) and 3J(19F,19F) NMR Couplings: A Comparison of SOPPA and DFT Methods

    Veronica Barone;Patricio F. Provasi;Juan E. Peralta;James P. Snyder

  • Calculated spin± spin coupling surfaces in the water molecule; prediction and analysis of J(O,H), J(O, D) and J(H, D) in water isotopomers

    R. D. Wigglesworth;W. T. Raynes;S. P. A. Sauer;J. Oddershede

  • Benchmarking NMR indirect nuclear spin-spin coupling constants: SOPPA, SOPPA(CC2), and SOPPA(CCSD) versus CCSD.

    Hanna Kjær;Stephan P. A. Sauer;Jacob Kongsted

  • Structural trends of 77Se-1H spin-spin coupling constants and conformational behavior of 2-substituted selenophenes.

    Yury Yu. Rusakov;Leonid B. Krivdin;Stephan P. A. Sauer;Ekaterina P. Levanova

  • Optimized Basis Sets for Calculation of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Hyperfine Coupling Constants: aug-cc-pVTZ-J for the 3d Atoms Sc-Zn.

    Erik Donovan Hedegård;Jacob Kongsted;Stephan P. A. Sauer

  • Unexpected differential sensitivity of nuclear spin–spin-coupling constants to bond stretching in BH4−, NH4+, and SiH4

    Stephan P. A. Sauer;William T. Raynes

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacob Kongsted
Jacob Kongsted University of Southern Denmark
Kurt V. Mikkelsen
Kurt V. Mikkelsen University of Copenhagen
Ove Christiansen
Ove Christiansen Aarhus University
Walter Thiel
Walter Thiel Max Planck Society
Henrik Koch
Henrik Koch Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Ibon Alkorta
Ibon Alkorta Spanish National Research Council
Jesper Bendix
Jesper Bendix University of Copenhagen
Trygve Helgaker
Trygve Helgaker University of Oslo
Kenneth Ruud
Kenneth Ruud University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Christian B. Nielsen
Christian B. Nielsen Queen Mary University of London

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