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 …

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 …

Electronic structure modeling of metal–organic frameworks

JL Mancuso, AM Mroz, KN Le, CH Hendon - Chemical reviews, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Owing to their molecular building blocks, yet highly crystalline nature, metal–organic
frameworks (MOFs) sit at the interface between molecule and material. Their diverse …

Extension and evaluation of the D4 London-dispersion model for periodic systems

E Caldeweyher, JM Mewes, S Ehlert… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
We present an extension of the DFT-D4 model [J. Chem. Phys., 2019, 150, 154122] for
periodic systems. The main new ingredients are additional reference polarizabilities for …

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 …

A thorough benchmark of density functional methods for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics, and noncovalent interactions

L Goerigk, S Grimme - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011‏ - pubs.rsc.org
A thorough energy benchmark study of various density functionals (DFs) is carried out with
the new GMTKN30 database for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics and …

Elevating density functional theory to chemical accuracy for water simulations through a density-corrected many-body formalism

S Dasgupta, E Lambros, JP Perdew… - Nature communications, 2021‏ - nature.com
Density functional theory (DFT) has been extensively used to model the properties of water.
Albeit maintaining a good balance between accuracy and efficiency, no density functional …

Hubbard‐corrected DFT energy functionals: The LDA+ U description of correlated systems

B Himmetoglu, A Floris, S De Gironcoli… - … Journal of Quantum …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this review article is to assess the descriptive capabilities of the Hubbard‐rooted
LDA+ U method and to clarify the conditions under which it can be expected to be most …

Insights into current limitations of density functional theory

AJ Cohen, P Mori-Sánchez, W Yang - Science, 2008‏ - science.org
Density functional theory of electronic structure is widely and successfully applied in
simulations throughout engineering and sciences. However, for many predicted properties …

Corrected small basis set Hartree‐Fock method for large systems

R Sure, S Grimme - Journal of computational chemistry, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
A quantum chemical method based on a Hartree‐Fock calculation with a small Gaussian AO
basis set is presented. Its main area of application is the computation of structures …