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 …

TD‐DFT benchmarks: a review

AD Laurent, D Jacquemin - International Journal of Quantum …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Time‐Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD‐DFT) has become the most widely‐used
theoretical approach to simulate the optical properties of both organic and inorganic …

Density functional theory is straying from the path toward the exact functional

MG Medvedev, IS Bushmarinov, J Sun, JP Perdew… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The theorems at the core of density functional theory (DFT) state that the energy of a many-
electron system in its ground state is fully defined by its electron density distribution. This …

A look at the density functional theory zoo with the advanced GMTKN55 database for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics and noncovalent interactions

L Goerigk, A Hansen, C Bauer, S Ehrlich… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We present the GMTKN55 benchmark database for general main group thermochemistry,
kinetics and noncovalent interactions. Compared to its popular predecessor GMTKN30 …

MN15: A Kohn–Sham global-hybrid exchange–correlation density functional with broad accuracy for multi-reference and single-reference systems and noncovalent …

SY Haoyu, X He, SL Li, DG Truhlar - Chemical science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Kohn–Sham density functionals are widely used; however, no currently available exchange–
correlation functional can predict all chemical properties with chemical accuracy. Here we …

Minimally empirical double-hybrid functionals trained against the GMTKN55 database: revDSD-PBEP86-D4, revDOD-PBE-D4, and DOD-SCAN-D4

G Santra, N Sylvetsky, JML Martin - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We present a family of minimally empirical double-hybrid DFT functionals parametrized
against the very large and diverse GMTKN55 benchmark. The very recently proposed …

[HTML][HTML] ωB97M-V: A combinatorially optimized, range-separated hybrid, meta-GGA density functional with VV10 nonlocal correlation

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
A combinatorially optimized, range-separated hybrid, meta-GGA density functional with
VV10 nonlocal correlation is presented. The final 12-parameter functional form is selected …

Large-scale benchmark of exchange–correlation functionals for the determination of electronic band gaps of solids

P Borlido, T Aull, AW Huran, F Tran… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We compile a large data set designed for the efficient benchmarking of exchange–
correlation functionals for the calculation of electronic band gaps. The data set comprises …

ωB97X-V: A 10-parameter, range-separated hybrid, generalized gradient approximation density functional with nonlocal correlation, designed by a survival-of-the …

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A 10-parameter, range-separated hybrid (RSH), generalized gradient approximation (GGA)
density functional with nonlocal correlation (VV10) is presented. Instead of truncating the …

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 …