Density functionals with broad applicability in chemistry

Y Zhao, DG Truhlar - Accounts of chemical research, 2008 - ACS Publications
Although density functional theory is widely used in the computational chemistry community,
the most popular density functional, B3LYP, has some serious shortcomings:(i) it is better for …

Ab‐initio simulations of materials using VASP: Density‐functional theory and beyond

J Hafner - Journal of computational chemistry, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
During the past decade, computer simulations based on a quantum‐mechanical description
of the interactions between electrons and between electrons and atomic nuclei have …

A look at the density functional theory zoo with the advanced GMTKN55 database for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics and noncovalent interactions

L Goerigk, A Hansen, C Bauer, S Ehrlich… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We present the GMTKN55 benchmark database for general main group thermochemistry,
kinetics and noncovalent interactions. Compared to its popular predecessor GMTKN30 …

Long-range corrected hybrid density functionals with damped atom–atom dispersion corrections

JD Chai, M Head-Gordon - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
We report re-optimization of a recently proposed long-range corrected (LC) hybrid density
functional [J.-D. Chai and M. Head-Gordon, J. Chem. Phys., 2008, 128, 084106] to include …

Perspective: Fifty years of density-functional theory in chemical physics

AD Becke - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Since its formal inception in 1964–1965, Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (KS-DFT) has
become the most popular electronic structure method in computational physics and …

MN15: A Kohn–Sham global-hybrid exchange–correlation density functional with broad accuracy for multi-reference and single-reference systems and noncovalent …

SY Haoyu, X He, SL Li, DG Truhlar - Chemical science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Kohn–Sham density functionals are widely used; however, no currently available exchange–
correlation functional can predict all chemical properties with chemical accuracy. Here we …

Systematic optimization of long-range corrected hybrid density functionals

JD Chai, M Head-Gordon - The Journal of chemical physics, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
A general scheme for systematically modeling long-range corrected (LC) hybrid density
functionals is proposed. Our resulting two LC hybrid functionals are shown to be accurate in …

A thorough benchmark of density functional methods for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics, and noncovalent interactions

L Goerigk, S Grimme - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
A thorough energy benchmark study of various density functionals (DFs) is carried out with
the new GMTKN30 database for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics and …

TD‐DFT benchmarks: a review

AD Laurent, D Jacquemin - International Journal of Quantum …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Time‐Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD‐DFT) has become the most widely‐used
theoretical approach to simulate the optical properties of both organic and inorganic …

Non-adiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics: Theory and applications for modeling photophysics in extended molecular materials

TR Nelson, AJ White, JA Bjorgaard, AE Sifain… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Optically active molecular materials, such as organic conjugated polymers and biological
systems, are characterized by strong coupling between electronic and vibrational degrees of …