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The treatment of atomic anions with Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) has long been controversial since the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy, $E_{HOMO}$, is often calculated to be positive with most approximate…

We present an effective field theory (EFT) for a model-independent description of deformed atomic nuclei. In leading order this approach recovers the well-known results from the collective model by Bohr and Mottelson. When higher-order…

Stochastic and mixed stochastic-deterministic density functional theory (DFT) are promising new approaches for the calculation of the equation-of-state and transport properties in materials under extreme conditions. In the intermediate warm…

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Accurate treatment of the electronic correlation in inhomogeneous electronic systems, combined with the ability to capture the correlation energy of the homogeneous electron gas, allows to reach high predictive power in the application of…

In a recent PRL, Gonze et al claim that the density functional theory in Hohenberg-Kohn formulation is not valid for crystalline solids in a homogenious electric field. They introduce another theory, density-and-polarization functional…

We report the computation of the Standard Hamiltonian of a coupled electron-phonon system by accurately computing the electron-phonon interaction (EPI) contribution to the total energy. This gives the most accurate ab initio total energy…

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In a previous contribution (Mol. Phys. {\bf 103}, xxxx, 2005), we established the suitability of density functional theory (DFT) for the calculation of molecular anharmonic force fields. In the present work, we have assessed a wide variety…

Alchemical perturbation density functional theory has been shown to be an efficient and computationally inexpensive way to explore chemical compound space. We investigate approximations made, in terms of atomic basis sets and perturbation…

We present a simple and efficient method to incorporate anharmonic effects in the vibrational \textcolor{black}{analyses} of molecules within density functional theory (DFT) calculations. This approach is closely related to the traditional…

The structural, dynamical, and thermodynamical properties of diamond, graphite and layered derivatives (graphene, rhombohedral graphite) are computed using a combination of density-functional theory (DFT) total-energy calculations and…

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A precise calculation of the ground-state energy of the complex PT-symmetric Hamiltonian $H=p^2+{1/4}x^2+i \lambda x^3$, is performed using high-order Rayleigh-Schr\"odinger perturbation theory. The energy spectrum of this Hamiltonian has…