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We present an accurate local density-functional for electronic-structure calculations within the density functional theory (DFT). The functional is derived by analyzing the structure of the standard perturbative expansion of the correlation…

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The vibrational frequency of carbon monoxide (CO) adsorbed on ceria-based catalysts serves as a sensitive probe for identifying exposed surface facets, provided that experimental reference data on well-defined single-crystal surfaces and…

Mejia-Rodriguez and Trickey recently proposed a procedure for removing the explicit dependence of meta-GGA exchange-correlation energy functionals $E_{\rm xc}$ on the kinetic energy density $\tau$. We present a simple modification to this…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-22 Pietro Bonfà , Sangeeta Sharma , John Kay Dewhurst

Anions and radicals are important for many applications including environmental chemistry, semiconductors, and charge transfer, but are poorly described by the available approximate energy density functionals. Here we test an approximate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 André Mirtschink , C. J. Umrigar , John D. Morgan , Paola Gori-Giorgi

Approximate exchange-correlation functionals built by modeling in a non-linear way the adiabatic connection (AC) integrand of density functional theory have many attractive features, being virtually parameters-free and satisfying different…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 S. Vuckovic , P. Gori-Giorgi , F. Della Sala , E. Fabiano

In this work, we developed and showcased the occ-RI-K algorithm to compute the exact exchange contribution in density functional calculations of solids near the basis set limit. Within the gaussian planewave (GPW) density fitting, our…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Joonho Lee , Adam Rettig , Xintian Feng , Evgeny Epifanovsky , Martin Head-Gordon

Results are presented of a fully ab-initio calculation of impact ionization rates in GaAs within the density functional theory framework, using a screened-exchange formalism and the highly precise all-electron full-potential linearized…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Picozzi , R. Asahi , C. B. Geller , A. Continenza , A. J. Freeman

The strongly constrained and appropriately normed (SCAN) meta-generalized gradient approximation (meta-GGA) functional is a milestone achievement of electronic structure theory. Recently, a revised and restored form (r$^2$SCAN) has been…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Adonis Haxhijaj , Stefan Riemelmoser , Alfredo Pasquarello

We derive and motivate a Laplacian-level, orbital-free meta-generalized-gradient approximation (LL-MGGA) for the exchange-correlation energy, targeting accurate ground-state properties of $sp$ and $sd$ metallic condensed matter, in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-02 Aaron D. Kaplan , John P. Perdew

We evaluate the accuracy of electron densities and quasiparticle energy gaps given by hybrid functionals by directly comparing these to the exact quantities obtained from solving the many-electron Schrodinger equation. We determine the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-15 A. R. Elmaslmane , Jack Wetherell , M. J. P. Hodgson , K. P. McKenna , R. W. Godby

We propose global hybrid approximations of the exchange-correlation (XC) energy functional which reproduce well the modified fourth-order gradient expansion of the exchange energy in the semiclassical limit of many-electron neutral atoms…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 E. Fabiano , L. A. Constantin , P. Cortona , F. Della Sala

Reporting extensions of a recently developed approach to density functional theory with correct long-range be-havior (Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 043002 (2005)). The central quantities are a splitting functional gamma[n] and a complementary…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Ester Livshits , Roi Baer

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is a widely-used electronic structure theory for materials as well as molecules. DFT is needed especially for large systems, ab initio molecular dynamics, and high-throughput searches for functional…

Using a reverse-engineering method we construct a meta-generalized gradient approximation (meta-GGA) angle-averaged exchange-correlation hole model which has a general applicability. It satisfies known exact hole constraints and can exactly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 L. A. Constantin , E. Fabiano , F. Della Sala

The newly developed "strongly constrained and appropriately normed" (SCAN) meta-generalized-gradient approximation (meta-GGA) can generally improve over the non-empirical Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) GGA not only for strong chemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-19 Haowei Peng , Zeng-Hui Yang , Jianwei Sun , John P. Perdew

Density functional theory (DFT) is a widespread and effective tool in electronic structure calculations for ground-state electron systems. Its success has prompted exploration into the use of DFT for non-collective excited states. The delta…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Ethan Pollack , Rohan Maniar , John P. Perdew

The isostructural {\alpha}-{\gamma} phase transition in cerium is analyzed using density-functional theory with different exchange-correlation functionals, in particular the PBE0 hybrid functional and the exact- exchange plus correlation in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 Marco Casadei , Xinguo Ren , Patrick Rinke , Angel Rubio , Matthias Scheffler

In density functional theory, the SCAN (Strongly Constrained and Appropriately Normed) and r2SCAN functionals significantly improve over generalized gradient approximation functionals such as PBE (Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof) in predicting…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Yubo Zhang , Da Ke , Rohan Maniar , Timo Lebeda , Peihong Zhang , Jianwei Sun , John P. Perdew

The subject of this study is the exchange-correlation-energy functional of reduced density matrix functional theory. Approximations of this functional are tested by applying them to the homogeneous electron gas. We find that two…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-01-14 N. N. Lathiotakis , N. Helbig , E. K. U. Gross

The recently proposed rSCAN functional [J. Chem. Phys. 150, 161101 (2019)] is a regularized form of the SCAN functional [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036402 (2015)] that improves SCAN's numerical performance at the expense of breaking constraints…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-02 James W. Furness , Aaron D. Kaplan , Jinliang Ning , John P. Perdew , Jianwei Sun