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 …

The density functional formalism, its applications and prospects

RO Jones, O Gunnarsson - Reviews of Modern Physics, 1989 - APS
A scheme that reduces the calculations of ground-state properties of systems of interacting
particles exactly to the solution of single-particle Hartree-type equations has obvious …

Density‐functional thermochemistry. I. The effect of the exchange‐only gradient correction

AD Becke - The Journal of chemical physics, 1992 - pubs.aip.org
Previous work by the author on diatomic molecules and by others on polyatomic systems
has revealed that Kohn–Sham density‐functional theory with ''gradient corrected''exchange …

A new mixing of Hartree–Fock and local density‐functional theories

AD Becke - The Journal of chemical physics, 1993 - pubs.aip.org
Previous attempts to combine Hartree-Fock theory with local density-functional theory have
been unsuccessful in applications to molecular bonding. We derive a new coupling of these …

Local density functional theory of atoms and molecules

RG Parr, SR Gadre, LJ Bartolotti - Proceedings of the …, 1979 - National Acad Sciences
A local density functional theory of the ground electronic states of atoms and molecules is
generated from three assumptions:(i) The energy functional is local.(ii) The chemical …

Perspective: Fifty years of density-functional theory in chemical physics

AD Becke - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Since its formal inception in 1964–1965, Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (KS-DFT) has
become the most popular electronic structure method in computational physics and …

[BOOK][B] A chemist's guide to density functional theory

W Koch, MC Holthausen - 2015 - books.google.com
" Chemists familiar with conventional quantum mechanics will applaud and benefit greatly
from this particularly instructive, thorough and clearly written exposition of density functional …

[BOOK][B] Density functional theory: an approach to the quantum many-body problem

RM Dreizler, EKU Gross - 2012 - books.google.com
Density Functional Theory is a rapidly develo** branch of many-particle physics that has
found applications in atomic, molecular, solid-state and nuclear physics. This book …

Density‐functional thermochemistry. IV. A new dynamical correlation functional and implications for exact‐exchange mixing

AD Becke - The Journal of chemical physics, 1996 - pubs.aip.org
A new dynamical correlation functional is constructed subject to a small number of simple,
yet key, requirements not all satisfied by existing functionals in the literature. The new …

Density functional theory: Its origins, rise to prominence, and future

RO Jones - Reviews of modern physics, 2015 - APS
In little more than 20 years, the number of applications of the density functional (DF)
formalism in chemistry and materials science has grown in an astonishing fashion. The …