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 …

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 …

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 …

Reliable prediction with tuned range-separated functionals of the singlet–triplet gap in organic emitters for thermally activated delayed fluorescence

H Sun, C Zhong, JL Bredas - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) mechanism has recently attracted
significant interest in the field of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). TADF relies on the …

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 …

The Kohn–Sham gap, the fundamental gap and the optical gap: the physical meaning of occupied and virtual Kohn–Sham orbital energies

EJ Baerends, OV Gritsenko, R Van Meer - … Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
A number of consequences of the presence of the exchange–correlation hole potential in
the Kohn–Sham potential are elucidated. One consequence is that the HOMO–LUMO orbital …

Organic electronic materials: recent advances in the DFT description of the ground and excited states using tuned range-separated hybrid functionals

T Körzdörfer, JL Brédas - Accounts of chemical research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Density functional theory (DFT) and its time-dependent extension (TD-DFT) are
powerful tools enabling the theoretical prediction of the ground-and excited-state properties …

Do optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functionals require a reparametrization of the dispersion correction? It depends

M Friede, S Ehlert, S Grimme… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
For ground-and excited-state studies of large molecules, it is the state of the art to combine
(time-dependent) DFT with dispersion-corrected range-separated hybrid functionals (RSHs) …

Band gaps of crystalline solids from Wannier-localization–based optimal tuning of a screened range-separated hybrid functional

D Wing, G Ohad, JB Haber, MR Filip… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Accurate prediction of fundamental band gaps of crystalline solid-state systems entirely
within density functional theory is a long-standing challenge. Here, we present a simple and …