Delocalization error: The greatest outstanding challenge in density‐functional theory

KR Bryenton, AA Adeleke, SG Dale… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Every day, density‐functional theory (DFT) is routinely applied to computational modeling of
molecules and materials with the expectation of high accuracy. However, in certain …

Computational approaches for organic semiconductors: from chemical and physical understanding to predicting new materials

V Bhat, CP Callaway, C Risko - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
While a complete understanding of organic semiconductor (OSC) design principles remains
elusive, computational methods─ ranging from techniques based in classical and quantum …

Replacing hybrid density functional theory: motivation and recent advances

BG Janesko - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Density functional theory (DFT) is the most widely-used electronic structure approximation
across chemistry, physics, and materials science. Every year, thousands of papers report …

Real-time time-dependent electronic structure theory

X Li, N Govind, C Isborn, AE DePrince III… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Real-time electronic structure methods provide an unprecedented view of electron dynamics
and ultrafast spectroscopy on the atto-and femtosecond time scale with vast potential to yield …

Predicting the second-order nonlinear optical responses of organic materials: the role of dynamics

F Castet, C Tonnelé, L Muccioli… - Accounts of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The last 30 years have witnessed an ever-growing application of computational
chemistry for rationalizing the nonlinear optical (NLO) responses of organic chromophores …

Choosing bad versus worse: predictions of two-photon-absorption strengths based on popular density functional approximations

M Chołuj, MM Alam, MTP Beerepoot… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We present a benchmark study of density functional approximation (DFA) performances in
predicting the two-photon-absorption strengths in π-conjugated molecules containing …

Requirements for an accurate dispersion-corrected density functional

AJA Price, KR Bryenton, ER Johnson - The Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Post-self-consistent dispersion corrections are now the norm when applying density-
functional theory to systems where non-covalent interactions play an important role …

Performance of DFT functionals for calculating the second-order nonlinear optical properties of dipolar merocyanines

L Lescos, SP Sitkiewicz, P Beaujean… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The second-order nonlinear optical responses of a series of recently designed dipolar
merocyanines are investigated using the 2006 Minnesota family of hybrid exchange …

Modeling absorption spectra of molecules in solution

TJ Zuehlsdorff, CM Isborn - International Journal of Quantum …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The presence of solvent tunes many properties of a molecule, such as its ground and
excited state geometry, dipole moment, excitation energy, and absorption spectrum …

[HTML][HTML] An optimally tuned range-separated hybrid starting point for ab initio GW plus Bethe–Salpeter equation calculations of molecules

CA McKeon, SM Hamed, F Bruneval… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The ab initio GW plus Bethe–Salpeter equation (GW-BSE, where G is the one particle
Green's function and W is the screened Coulomb interaction) approach has emerged as a …