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 …

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 …

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 …

Iterative minimization techniques for ab initio total-energy calculations: molecular dynamics and conjugate gradients

MC Payne, MP Teter, DC Allan, TA Arias… - Reviews of modern …, 1992 - APS
This article describes recent technical developments that have made the total-energy
pseudopotential the most powerful ab initio quantum-mechanical modeling method …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Ab‐initio simulations of materials using VASP: Density‐functional theory and beyond

J Hafner - Journal of computational chemistry, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
During the past decade, computer simulations based on a quantum‐mechanical description
of the interactions between electrons and between electrons and atomic nuclei have …