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 …

Carbon nanodots from an in silico perspective

F Mocci, L de Villiers Engelbrecht, C Olla… - Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Carbon nanodots (CNDs) are the latest and most shining rising stars among
photoluminescent (PL) nanomaterials. These carbon-based surface-passivated …

Pushing the frontiers of density functionals by solving the fractional electron problem

J Kirkpatrick, B McMorrow, DHP Turban, AL Gaunt… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
Density functional theory describes matter at the quantum level, but all popular
approximations suffer from systematic errors that arise from the violation of mathematical …

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 …

Status and challenges of density functional theory

P Verma, DG Truhlar - Trends in Chemistry, 2020‏ - cell.com
We discuss some of the challenges facing density functional theory (DFT) and recent
progress in DFT for both ground and excited electronic states. We discuss key aspects of the …

Improving results by improving densities: Density-corrected density functional theory

E Sim, S Song, S Vuckovic, K Burke - Journal of the American …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Density functional theory (DFT) calculations have become widespread in both chemistry and
materials, because they usually provide useful accuracy at much lower computational cost …

Describing chemical reactivity with frontier molecular orbitalets

J Yu, NQ Su, W Yang - JACS Au, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Locality in physical space is critical in understanding chemical reactivity in the analysis of
various phenomena and processes in chemistry, biology, and materials science, as …

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 …

The predictive power of exact constraints and appropriate norms in density functional theory

AD Kaplan, M Levy, JP Perdew - Annual Review of Physical …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Ground-state Kohn-Sham density functional theory provides, in principle, the exact ground-
state energy and electronic spin densities of real interacting electrons in a static external …

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 …