DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science

AM Teale, T Helgaker, A Savin, C Adamo… - Physical chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, the history, present status, and future of density-functional theory (DFT) is
informally reviewed and discussed by 70 workers in the field, including molecular scientists …

Combining wave function methods with density functional theory for excited states

S Ghosh, P Verma, CJ Cramer, L Gagliardi… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We review state-of-the-art electronic structure methods based both on wave function theory
(WFT) and density functional theory (DFT). Strengths and limitations of both the wave …

Double and charge-transfer excitations in time-dependent density functional theory

NT Maitra - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Time-dependent density functional theory has emerged as a method of choice for
calculations of spectra and response properties in physics, chemistry, and biology, with its …

Spin‐restricted ensemble‐referenced Kohn–Sham method: basic principles and application to strongly correlated ground and excited states of molecules

M Filatov - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Ensemble density functional theory (DFT) is a novel theoretical approach that is capable of
exact treatment of non‐dynamic electron correlation in the ground and excited states of …

Ensemble density functional theory of neutral and charged excitations: exact formulations, standard approximations, and open questions

F Cernatic, B Senjean, V Robert, E Fromager - Topics in current chemistry, 2022 - Springer
Recent progress in the field of (time-independent) ensemble density-functional theory (DFT)
for excited states are reviewed. Both Gross–Oliveira–Kohn (GOK) and N-centered ensemble …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of approximate computational methods for conical intersections and branching plane vectors in organic molecules

A Nikiforov, JA Gamez, W Thiel… - The Journal of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum-chemical computational methods are benchmarked for their ability to describe
conical intersections in a series of organic molecules and models of biological …

Foundation for the {\Delta} SCF Approach in Density Functional Theory

W Yang, PW Ayers - arxiv preprint arxiv:2403.04604, 2024 - arxiv.org
We extend ground-state density-functional theory to excited states and provide the
theoretical formulation for the widely used $\Delta SCF $ method for calculating excited-state …

Ensemble density functional theory: Insight from the fluctuation-dissipation theorem

T Gould, G Stefanucci, S Pittalis - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Density functional theory can be generalized to mixtures of ground and excited states, for the
purpose of determining energies of excitations using low-cost density functional …

Neutral electronic excitations and derivative discontinuities: An extended -centered ensemble density functional theory perspective

F Cernatic, PF Loos, B Senjean, E Fromager - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
This work merges two different types of many-electron ensembles, namely, the Theophilou-
Gross-Oliveira-Kohn ensembles of ground and neutrally excited states, and the more recent …