Thirty years of density functional theory in computational chemistry: an overview and extensive assessment of 200 density functionals

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - Molecular physics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In the past 30 years, Kohn–Sham density functional theory has emerged as the most popular
electronic structure method in computational chemistry. To assess the ever-increasing …

Dispersion-corrected mean-field electronic structure methods

S Grimme, A Hansen, JG Brandenburg… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Mean-field electronic structure methods like Hartree–Fock, semilocal density functional
approximations, or semiempirical molecular orbital (MO) theories do not account for long …

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 …

Universal solvation model based on solute electron density and on a continuum model of the solvent defined by the bulk dielectric constant and atomic surface …

AV Marenich, CJ Cramer… - The Journal of Physical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
We present a new continuum solvation model based on the quantum mechanical charge
density of a solute molecule interacting with a continuum description of the solvent. The …

Toward reliable density functional methods without adjustable parameters: The PBE0 model

C Adamo, V Barone - The Journal of chemical physics, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
We present an analysis of the performances of a parameter free density functional model
(PBE0) obtained combining the so called PBE generalized gradient functional with a …

Density functional theory is straying from the path toward the exact functional

MG Medvedev, IS Bushmarinov, J Sun, JP Perdew… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The theorems at the core of density functional theory (DFT) state that the energy of a many-
electron system in its ground state is fully defined by its electron density distribution. This …

Density functional theory with London dispersion corrections

S Grimme - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersion corrections to standard Kohn–Sham density functional theory (DFT) are
reviewed. The focus is on computationally efficient methods for large systems that do not …

A new local density functional for main-group thermochemistry, transition metal bonding, thermochemical kinetics, and noncovalent interactions

Y Zhao, DG Truhlar - The Journal of chemical physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
We present a new local density functional, called M06-L, for main-group and transition
element thermochemistry, thermochemical kinetics, and noncovalent interactions. The …

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 …

CRYSTAL23: A program for computational solid state physics and chemistry

A Erba, JK Desmarais, S Casassa… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The Crystal program for quantum-mechanical simulations of materials has been bridging the
realm of molecular quantum chemistry to the realm of solid state physics for many years …