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 …

Computational approach to molecular catalysis by 3d transition metals: challenges and opportunities

KD Vogiatzis, MV Polynski, JK Kirkland… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Computational chemistry provides a versatile toolbox for studying mechanistic details of
catalytic reactions and holds promise to deliver practical strategies to enable the rational in …

Revisiting the performance of time-dependent density functional theory for electronic excitations: Assessment of 43 popular and recently developed functionals from …

J Liang, X Feng, D Hait… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this paper, the performance of more than 40 popular or recently developed density
functionals is assessed for the calculation of 463 vertical excitation energies against the …

How accurate is density functional theory at predicting dipole moments? An assessment using a new database of 200 benchmark values

D Hait, M Head-Gordon - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Dipole moments are a simple, global measure of the accuracy of the electron density of a
polar molecule. Dipole moments also affect the interactions of a molecule with other …

How accurate are static polarizability predictions from density functional theory? An assessment over 132 species at equilibrium geometry

D Hait, M Head-Gordon - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Static polarizabilities are the first response of the electron density to electric fields, and are
therefore important for predicting intermolecular and molecule-field interactions. They also …

Quantifying density errors in DFT

E Sim, S Song, K Burke - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
We argue that any general mathematical measure of density error, no matter how
reasonable, is too arbitrary to be of universal use. However, the energy functional itself …

How to arrive at accurate benchmark values for transition metal compounds: Computation or experiment?

YA Aoto, AP de Lima Batista, A Kohn… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
With the objective of analyzing which kind of reference data is appropriate for benchmarking
quantum chemical approaches for transition metal compounds, we present the following,(a) …

Predicting accurate cathode properties of layered oxide materials using the SCAN meta-GGA density functional

A Chakraborty, M Dixit, D Aurbach… - npj Computational …, 2018 - nature.com
Layered lithium intercalating transition metal oxides are promising cathode materials for Li-
ion batteries. Here, we scrutinize the recently developed strongly constrained and …

Universal generalization of density functional theory for static correlation

D Gibney, JN Boyn, DA Mazziotti - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
A major challenge for density functional theory (DFT) is its failure to treat static correlation,
yielding errors in predicted charges, band gaps, van der Waals forces, and reaction barriers …

A review on non‐relativistic, fully numerical electronic structure calculations on atoms and diatomic molecules

S Lehtola - International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The need for accurate calculations on atoms and diatomic molecules is motivated by the
opportunities and challenges of such studies. The most commonly used approach for all …