done with H2 for now

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The top panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:H2} shows the CIS (dotted lines) and SF-CIS (dashed lines) excitation energies as a function of $R(\ce{H-H})$.
The EOM-CCSD reference energies are represented by solid lines.
We observe that both CIS and SF-CIS poorly describe the $\text{B}\,{}^1\Sigma_u^+$ state, especially in the dissociation limit with an error greater than $1$ eV.
The same analysis can be done for the $\text{F}\,{}^1\Sigma_g^+$ state at dissociation.
The EOM-CSSD curves clearly evidence the avoided crossing between the $\text{E}$ and $\text{F}$ states.
We observe that both CIS and SF-CIS poorly describe the $\text{B}\,{}^1\Sigma_u^+$ state in the dissociation limit with an error greater than $1$ eV, while CIS, unlike SF-CIS, is much more accurate around the equilibrium geometry \titou{(spin-contamination of the SF-CIS wave function?)}.
Similar observations can be made for the $\text{E}\,{}^1\Sigma_g^+$ state with a good description at the CIS level for all bond lengths.
SF-CIS does not model accurately the $\text{E}\,{}^1\Sigma_g^+$ state before the avoided crossing, but the agreement between SF-CIS and EOM-CCSD is much satisfactory for bond length greater than $1.6$ \AA.
Oppositely, SF-CIS describes better the $\text{F}\,{}^1\Sigma_g^+$ state before the avoided crossing than after.
Nonetheless, this results in a rather good qualitative agreement with an avoided crossing placed at a slightly larger bond length than at the EOM-CCSD level.
As mentioned earlier, CIS is unable to locate any avoided crossing as it cannot access double excitations.
However, CIS is quite accurate for the $\text{E}\,{}^1\Sigma_g^+$.
\titou{Spin-contamination of the E state?}
Oppositely, SF-CIS describes better the $\text{F}\,{}^1\Sigma_g^+$ state before the avoided crossing than after \titou{(spin-contamination of the SF-CIS wave function?)}, while this state is completely absent at the CIS level.
Indeed, as mentioned earlier, CIS is unable to locate any avoided crossing as it cannot access double excitations.
At the SF-CIS level, the avoided crossing between the $\text{E}$ and $\text{F}$ states is qualitatively reproduced and placed at a slightly larger bond length than at the EOM-CCSD level.
In the center panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:H2}, we report the (SF-)TD-BH\&HLYP results.
TD-BH\&HLYP shows bad results for all the states of interest with and without spin-flip.
Note that \ce{H2} is a rather challenging system for (SF)-TD-DFT from a general point of view. \cite{Cohen_2008a,Cohen_2008c,Cohen_2012}
Indeed, for the three states we have a difference in the excitation energy at the dissociation limit of several eV with and without spin-flip.
Similar graphs for (SF-)TD-BLYP and (SF-)TD-B3LYP are reported in the {\SI}.
SF-TD-BH\&HLYP shows, at best, qualitative agreement with EOM-CCSD, while the TD-BH\&HLYP excitation energies of the $\text{B}$ and $\text{E}$ states are only trustworthy around equilibrium but inaccurate at dissociation.
Note that \ce{H2} is a rather challenging system for (SF)-TD-DFT from a general point of view. \cite{Cohen_2008a,Cohen_2008c,Cohen_2012}
In the bottom panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:H2} we have results for BSE calculation with and without spin-flip.
SF-BSE gives a good representation of the $\text{B}\,{}^1\Sigma_u^+$ state with error of 0.05-0.3 eV.
However SF-BSE does not describe well the $\text{E}\,{}^1\Sigma_g^+$ state with error of 0.5-1.6 eV. SF-BSE shows a good agreement with the EOM-CCSD reference for the double excitation to the $\text{F}\,{}^1\Sigma_g^+$ state, indeed we have an error of 0.008-0.6 eV. BSE results for the $\text{B}\,{}^1\Sigma_u^+$ state are close to the reference until 2.0 \AA~ and the give bad agreement for the dissociation limit.
For the $\text{E}\,{}^1\Sigma_g^+$ state BSE gives closer results to the reference than SF-BSE.
However we can observe that for all the methods that we compared, when the spin-flip is not used standard methods can not retrieve double excitation.
There is no avoided crossing or perturbation in the curve for the $\text{E}\,{}^1\Sigma_g^+$ state when spin-flip is not used.
This is because for these methods we are in the space of single excitation and de-excitation.
In the bottom panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:H2}, (SF-)BSE excitation energies for the same three singlet states are represented.
A similar graph comparing (SF-)dBSE and EOM-CCSD excitation energies can be found in the {\SI}.
SF-BSE provides surprisingly accurate excitation energies for the $\text{B}\,{}^1\Sigma_u^+$ state with errors between $0.05$ and $0.3$ eV, outperforming in the process the standard BSE formalism.
However SF-BSE does not describe well the $\text{E}\,{}^1\Sigma_g^+$ state with error ranging from half an eV to $1.6$ eV \titou{(spin-contamination of the SF-BSE wave function?)}.
Similar performances are observed at the BSE level around equilibrium with a clear improvement in the dissociation limit.
Remarkably, SF-BSE shows a good agreement with EOM-CCSD for the $\text{F}\,{}^1\Sigma_g^+$ doubly-excited state, resulting in an avoided crossing around $R(\ce{H-H}) = 1.6$ \AA.
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