Challenges for density functional theory

AJ Cohen, P Mori-Sánchez, W Yang - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory (DFT) of electronic structure has made an unparalleled impact on
the application of quantum mechanics to interesting and challenging problems in chemistry …

Single-reference ab initio methods for the calculation of excited states of large molecules

A Dreuw, M Head-Gordon - Chemical reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
Since the electronic Schrödinger equation (SE) was first written down, it was clear that it
cannot be solved exactly for real molecular systems due to the electron-electron interaction …

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 …

A long-range-corrected time-dependent density functional theory

Y Tawada, T Tsuneda, S Yanagisawa… - The Journal of …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
We apply the long-range correction (LC) scheme for exchange functionals of density
functional theory to time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and examine its …

Time-dependent density-functional theory: concepts and applications

CA Ullrich - 2011 - books.google.com
Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) describes the quantum dynamics of
interacting electronic many-body systems formally exactly and in a practical and efficient …

Charge-transfer electronic states in organic solar cells

V Coropceanu, XK Chen, T Wang, Z Zheng… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
In organic solar cells, the charge-transfer (CT) electronic states that form at the interface
between the electron-donor (D) and electron-acceptor (A) materials have a crucial role in …

A qualitative index of spatial extent in charge-transfer excitations

T Le Bahers, C Adamo, I Ciofini - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2011 - ACS Publications
With the aim of defining the spatial extent associated to an electronic transition, of particular
relevance in the case of charge-transfer (CT) excitations, a new index, evaluated only from …

Excitation energies in density functional theory: An evaluation and a diagnostic test

MJG Peach, P Benfield, T Helgaker… - The Journal of chemical …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Electronic excitation energies are determined using the CAM-B3LYP Coulomb-attenuated
functional [T. Yanai et al Chem. Phys. Lett. 393, 51 (2004)], together with a standard …

Excitation gaps of finite-sized systems from optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functionals

L Kronik, T Stein, S Refaely-Abramson… - Journal of Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Excitation gaps are of considerable significance in electronic structure theory. Two different
gaps are of particular interest. The fundamental gap is defined by charged excitations, as the …

Orbital-dependent density functionals: Theory and applications

S Kümmel, L Kronik - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2008 - APS
This review provides a perspective on the use of orbital-dependent functionals, which is
currently considered one of the most promising avenues in modern density-functional …