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The journey of theoretical study on semiconductors is reviewed in a non-conventional way. We have started with the basic introduction of Hartree-Fock method and introduce the fundamentals of Density Functional Theory (DFT). From the oldest…

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Using a linear combination of atomic orbitals approach, we report a systematic comparison of various Density Functional Theory (DFT) and hybrid exchange-correlation functionals for the prediction of the electronic and structural properties…

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Density Functional Theory (DFT) sees prominent use in computational chemistry and physics, however, problems due to the self-interaction error (SIE) pose additional challenges to obtaining qualitatively correct results. An unphysical energy…

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Electron transfer with changing occupation in the 4f subshell poses a considerable challenge for quantitative predictions in quantum chemistry. Using the example of cerium oxide, we identify the main deficiencies of common…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Tobias Schäfer , Nathan Daelman , Núria López

Clay minerals are ubiquitous in nature, and the manner in which they interact with their surroundings has important industrial and environmental implications. Consequently, a molecular-level understanding of the adsorption of molecules on…

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Although the density functional theory plus Hubbard $U$ correction method (DFT+U) is broadly used to study electronic structure of strongly correlated materials, the extension of this method to electron-phonon $g$ matrices has received…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Jiale Chen , Youyou Tu , Chengliang Xia , Jin Zhao , Hanghui Chen

Density functional theory (DFT) provides convenient electronic structure methods for the study of molecular systems and materials. Regular Kohn-Sham DFT calculations rely on unitary transformations to determine the ground-state electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Greta Jacobson , Juan M. Marmolejo-Tejada , Martín A. Mosquera

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) has long struggled with the accurate description of strongly correlated and open shell systems and improvements have been minor even in the newest hybrid functionals. In this Letter we treat the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Danny Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

We introduce a method for the estimation of uncertainties in density-functional-theory (DFT) calculations for atomistic systems. The method is based on the construction of an uncertainty-aware functional distribution (UAFD) in a space…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-14 Teitur Hansen , Jens Jørgen Mortensen , Thomas Bligaard , Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

Physically reasonable electronic structures of reconstructed rutile TiO_2(110)-(1x2) surfaces were studied using density functional theory (DFT) supplemented with Hubbard U on-site Coulomb repulsion acting on the d electrons, so called as…

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We discuss an efficient scheme for obtaining spin-polarized quasi-particle excitation energies within the general framework of the density functional theory (DFT). Our approach is to correct the DFT eigenvalues via the electrostatic energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-11 B. Barbiellini , A. Bansil

Density functional theory (DFT) became a universal approach to compute ground-state and excited configurations of many-electron systems held together by an external one-body potential in condensed-matter, atomic, and molecular physics. At…

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We investigate energetic and electronic properties of TiS2 , an archetypal van der Waals (vdW) material, from first principles, in the framework of the Density Functional Theory (DFT). In this system a recent experimental study showed a…

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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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Despite its widespread use, density functional theory (DFT) has several notable areas of failure; perhaps the most well-studied of these failures is self-interaction error (SIE). Density corrected DFT (DC-DFT) was proposed as a potential…

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Orbital-optimized density functional theory (DFT) has emerged as an alternative to time-dependent (TD) DFT capable of describing difficult excited states with significant electron density redistribution, such as charge-transfer, Rydberg,…

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We extend to strongly correlated molecular systems the recently introduced basis-set incompleteness correction based on density-functional theory (DFT) [E. Giner et al., J. Chem. Phys. 149, 194301 (2018)]. This basis-set correction relies…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Emmanuel Giner , Anthony Scemama , Pierre-François Loos , Julien Toulouse

Density functional theory $(DFT)$ studies show that doping of $3d TM$ atoms into $Mg_4^{0,+} (TMMg_3^{0,+})$ can alter the endothermic nature of molecular hydrogen adsorption on bare $Mg_4^{0,+}$. $H_2$ adsorption on $TMMg_3^{0,+}$ clusters…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-21 Bishwajit Boruah , Bulumoni Kalita

Accurate predictions of material properties within the chemical space of transition metal fluorides (TMFs), using density functional theory (DFT) is important for advancing several technological applications. The state-of-the-art semi-local…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-17 Dereje Bekele Tekliye , Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam

The nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) method is a well-established approach for treating nuclei quantum mechanically in molecular systems beyond the usual Born-Oppenheimer approximation. In this work, we present a strategy to implement the…

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