Algebraic diagrammatic
construction (ADC) schemes represent a family
of ab initio methods for the calculation of excited
electronic states and electron-detached and -attached states. All
ADC methods have been demonstrated to possess great potential for
molecular applications, e.g., for the calculation of absorption or
photoelectron spectra or electron attachment processes. ADC originates
from Green’s function or propagator theory; however, most recent
ADC developments heavily rely on the intermediate state representation
or effective Liouvillian formalisms, which comprise new ADC methods
and computational schemes for high-order properties. The different
approaches for the calculation of excitation energies, ionization
potentials, and electron affinities are intimately related, and they
provide a coherent description of these quantities at equivalent levels
of theory and with comparable errors. Most quantum chemical program
packages contain ADC methods; however, the most complete ADC suite
of methods can be found in the recent release of Q-Chem.