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 …

Density functionals based on the mathematical structure of the strong‐interaction limit of DFT

S Vuckovic, A Gerolin, KJ Daas… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While in principle exact, Kohn–Sham density functional theory—the workhorse of
computational chemistry—must rely on approximations for the exchange–correlation …

The strong-interaction limit of density functional theory

G Friesecke, A Gerolin, P Gori-Giorgi - Density Functional Theory …, 2022 - Springer
This is a comprehensive review of the strong-interaction limit of density functional theory. It
covers the derivation of the limiting strictly correlated electrons (SCE) functional from exact …

Gradient expansions for the large-coupling strength limit of the Møller–Plesset adiabatic connection

KJ Daas, DP Kooi, AJAF Grooteman… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The adiabatic connection that has, as weak-interaction expansion, the Møller–Plesset
perturbation series has been recently shown to have a large coupling-strength expansion, in …

[HTML][HTML] Adventures in DFT by a wavefunction theorist

RJ Bartlett - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The attraction density functional theory (DFT) has for electronic structure theory is that it is
easier to do computationally than ab initio, correlated wavefunction methods, due to its …

Unveiling the physics behind hybrid functionals

S Śmiga, LA Constantin - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2020 - ACS Publications
We show that accurate exchange–correlation hybrid functionals give very physically
optimized effective-correlation potentials, capable of correctly describing the quantum …

Self-consistent implementation of Kohn–Sham adiabatic connection models with improved treatment of the strong-interaction limit

S Smiga, F Della Sala, P Gori-Giorgi… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Adiabatic connection models (ACMs), which interpolate between the limits of weak and
strong interaction, are powerful tools to build accurate exchange–correlation functionals. If …

Improved solid stability from a screened range-separated hybrid functional by satisfying semiclassical atom theory and local density linear response

S Jana, B Patra, S Śmiga, LA Constantin, P Samal - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Semiclassical neutral atom theory is an important constraint of the state-of-the-art
development of exchange-correlation functionals for solid-state physics. Based on this …

Møller–Plesset and density-fixed adiabatic connections for a model diatomic system at different correlation regimes

S Giarrusso, A Pribram-Jones - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In recent years, adiabatic connection (AC) interpolations developed within density functional
theory (DFT) have been found to provide good performances in the calculation of interaction …

Numerically precise benchmark of many-body self-energies on spherical atoms

S Vacondio, D Varsano, A Ruini… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We investigate the performance of beyond-GW approaches in many-body perturbation
theory by addressing atoms described within the spherical approximation via a dedicated …