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Since the development of the nonlocal correlation functional vdW-DF, the family of van der Waals density functionals has grown to better describe a wide variety of systems. A recent generation of the vdW-DF family, vdW-DF3, featured a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-03 Trevor Jenkins , Kristian Berland , Timo Thonhauser

The van der Waals (vdW) density functional (vdW-DF) method [ROPP 78, 066501 (2015)] describes dispersion or vdW binding by tracking the effects of an electrodynamic coupling among pairs of electrons and their associated exchange-correlation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-21 Yang Jiao , Elsebeth Schröder , Per Hyldgaard

A scheme within density functional theory is proposed that provides a practical way to generalize to unrestricted geometries the method applied with some success to layered geometries [H. Rydberg, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 126402…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Dion , H. Rydberg , E. Schroder , D. C. Langreth , B. I. Lundqvist

A new implementation is proposed for including van der Waals interactions in Density Functional Theory using the Maximally-Localized Wannier functions. With respect to the previous DFT/vdW-WF method, the present DFT/vdW-WF2 approach, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Ambrosetti , P. L. Silvestrelli

A recent paper [J. Chem. Phys. 132, 134705 (2010)] illustrated the potential of the van der Waals density functional (vdW-DF) method [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246401 (2004)] for efficient first-principle accounts of structure and cohesion in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Kristian Berland , Oyvind Borck , Per Hyldgaard

We present an efficient implementation of the van der Waals density functional of Dion et al [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246401 (2004)], which expresses the nonlocal correlation energy as a double spacial integral. We factorize the integration…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Guillermo Roman-Perez , Jose M. Soler

We devise a nonlocal correlation energy functional that describes the entire range of dispersion interactions in a seamless fashion using only the electron density as input. The new functional is considerably simpler than its predecessors…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-12-27 Oleg A. Vydrov , Troy Van Voorhis

We introduce a new, general-purpose, range-separated hybrid van der Waals density \ph{functional, termed vdW-DF-ahbr,} within the non-empirical vdW-DF method [JPCM 32, 393001 (2020)]. It combines correlation from vdW-DF2 with a screened…

Detailed physisorption data from experiment for the H_2 molecule on low-index Cu surfaces challenge theory. Recently, density-functional theory (DFT) has been developed to account for nonlocal correlation effects, including van der Waals…

We assess the performance of nonempirical, truly nonlocal and semi-local functionals with regard to structural and thermal properties of $3d$, $4d$, and $5d$ non-magnetic transition metals. We focus on constraint-based functionals and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-14 Leili Gharaee , Paul Erhart , Per Hyldgaard

The DFT/vdW-WF2s1 method based on the generation of localized Wannier functions, recently developed to include the van der Waals interactions in the Density Functional Theory and describe adsorption processes on metal surfaces by taking…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Pier Luigi Silvestrelli , Alberto Ambrosetti

We present results for a density functional theory study of small water clusters and hexagonal ice Ih, using the van der Waals density functional (vdW-DF). In particular, we examine energetic, structural, and vibrational properties of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-20 Brian Kolb , T. Thonhauser

A simplification of the VV10 van der Waals density functional [J. Chem. Phys. 133, 244103 (2010)] is made by an approximation of the integrand of the six-dimentional integral in terms of a few products of three-dimensional density-like…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Dimitri N. Laikov

A van der Waals (vdW) density functional was implemented in the mixed basis approach previously developed for studying two dimensional systems, in which the vdW interaction plays an important role. The basis functions here are taken to be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Chung-Yuan Ren , Yia-Chung Chang , Chen-Shiung Hsue

The nonlocal correlation energy in the van der Waals density functional (vdW-DF) method [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246401 (2004); Phys. Rev. B 76, 125112 (2007); Phys. Rev. B 89, 035412 (2014)] can be interpreted in terms of a coupling of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Per Hyldgaard , Kristian Berland , Elsebeth Schröder

The cohesive energy, equilibrium lattice constant, and bulk modulus of noble metals are computed by different van der Waals-corrected Density Functional Theory methods, including vdW-DF, vdW-DF2, vdW-DF-cx, rVV10 and PBE-D. Two…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Alberto Ambrosetti , Pier Luigi Silvestrelli

In 2012, Bjorkman et al. posed the question "Are we van der Waals ready?" [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 2012, 24, 424218] about the ability of ab initio modelling to reproduce van der Waals (vdW) dispersion forces in layered materials. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-30 Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik , Tim Gould , Catherine Stamp , Michael J. Ford

There is enormous recent interest in weak, van der Waals-type (vdW) interactions due to their fundamental relevance for two-dimensional materials and the so-called vdW heterostructures. Tackling this problem using computer simulation is…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-20 Fabian Schulz , Peter Liljeroth , Ari Paavo Seitsonen

The interaction of water molecules with metal surfaces is typically weak and as a result van der Waals (vdW) forces can be expected to be of importance. Here we account for the systematic poor treatment of vdW forces in most popular density…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-30 Javier Carrasco , Jiří Klimeš , Angelos Michaelides

Van der Waals (vdW) solids, as a new type of artificial materials that consist of alternating layers bonded by weak interactions, have shed light on fascinating optoelectronic device concepts. As a result, a large variety of vdW devices…