Publications [#235106] of Weitao Yang

Journal Articles

1. York, D; Lee, T-S; Yang, W, Parameterization and efficient implementation of a solvent model for linear-scaling semiemperical quantum mechanical calculations of biological macro-molecules, Chem. Phys. Lett., vol. 263 no. 1-2 (1996), pp. 297-304, Elsevier BV [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/16)

   Abstract:
   A method is developed to include solvation effects in linear-scaling semiempirical quantum calculations. Favorable scaling of computational effort for large molecules is achieved using a preconditioned conjugate gradient technique in conjunction with a linear-scaling recursive bisection method for evaluation of electrostatic interactions. The method requires approximately 30% computational overhead relative to gas-phase calculations. Effective atomic radii for biological macromolecules are derived from fitting to experimental and theoretical solvation energies for small molecules homologous to amino-and nucleic acid residues.