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Density functional theory (DFT) remains the most widely used electronic structure method. Although exact in principle, in practice, it relies on approximations to the exchange-correlation (XC) functional, which is known to be a unique…
The conventional approaches to the inverse density functional theory problem typically assume non-degeneracy of the Kohn-Sham (KS) eigenvalues, greatly hindering their use in open-shell systems. We present a generalization of the inverse…
As part of a project to obtain better optical response functions for nano materials and other systems with strong excitonic effects we here calculate the exchange-correlation (XC) potential of density-functional theory (DFT) at a level of…
Finding accurate exchange-correlation (XC) functionals remains the defining challenge in density functional theory (DFT). Despite 40 years of active development, the desired chemical accuracy is still elusive with existing functionals. We…
We construct exact Kohn-Sham potentials for the ensemble density-functional theory (EDFT) from the ground and excited states of helium. The exchange-correlation (XC) potential is compared with the quasi-local-density approximation and both…
Density functional theory (DFT) in chemistry and materials science aims for "chemical accuracy," but this goal is challenged by the need to approximate the exact exchange-correlation (XC) energy functional. The r$^2$SCAN, meta-generalized…
Density Functional Theory (DFT) is used extensively in the computation of electronic properties of matter, with various applications. Approximating the exchange-correlation (XC) functional is the key to the Kohn-Sham DFT approach, the basis…
Density functional theory (DFT) is one of the primary approaches to get a solution to the many-body Schrodinger equation. The essential part of the DFT theory is the exchange-correlation (XC) functional, which can not be obtained in…
Density Functional Theory (DFT) stands as a widely used and efficient approach for addressing the many-electron Schr\"odinger equation across various domains such as physics, chemistry, and biology. However, a core challenge that persists…
Electronic structures are fully determined by the exchange-correlation (XC) potential. In this work, we develop a new method to construct reliable XC potentials by properly mixing the exact exchange and the local density approximation…
Capturing the discontinuous shift by $\Delta$ in the exact exchange-correlation (xc) potential is the standard proposal for calculating the fundamental gap, $E_\mathrm{g}$, from the Kohn-Sham (KS) gap, $\varepsilon_\mathrm{g}$, within KS…
Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is the workhorse of quantum chemistry, offering an attractive balance between accuracy and computational cost. Although exact in principle, DFT in practice relies on an approximation to the unknown…
Ensemble density functional theory (eDFT) is an exact time-independent alternative to time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) for the calculation of excitation energies. Despite its formal simplicity and advantages in contrast to TD-DFT (multiple…
Exchange interactions are a manifestation of the quantum mechanical nature of the electrons and play a key role in predicting the properties of materials from first principles. In density functional theory (DFT), a widely used approximation…
Standard density functional approximations often give questionable results for odd-electron radical complexes, with the error typically attributed to self-interaction. In density corrected density functional theory (DC-DFT), certain classes…
In this work we have studied a new functional for the correlation energy obtained from the exact-exchange (EXX) approximation within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). Correlation energies have been calculated for a number of…
The accuracy of density-functional theory (DFT) is determined by the quality of the approximate functionals, such as exchange-correlation in electronic DFT and the excess functional in the classical DFT formalism of fluids. The exact…
We propose a new approach to approximate the exchange and correlation (XC) functional in density functional theory. The XC potential is considered as an electrostatic potential, generated by a fictitious XC density, which is in turn a…
Density functional theory (DFT) is one of the most widely used tools to solve the many-body Schrodinger equation. The core uncertainty inside DFT theory is the exchange-correlation (XC) functional, the exact form of which is still unknown.…
By including a fraction of exact exchange (EXX), hybrid functionals reduce the self-interaction error in semi-local density functional theory (DFT), and thereby furnish a more accurate and reliable description of the electronic structure in…