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We proposed in Ref. [arXiv:1812.09285v2] a way to improve energy density functionals in the density functional theory based on the combination of the inverse Kohn-Sham method and the density functional perturbation theory. In this…

Kohn-Sham density functional theory is the base of modern computational approaches to electronic structures. Their accuracy vitally relies on the exchange-correlation energy functional, which encapsulates electron-electron interaction…

We have compared the performance of Grimme style DH/DSD and Zhang-Xu-Goddard type xDH/xDSD forms for double hybrids. In the DH and DSD forms, KS orbitals with elevated HF exchange and damped DFT correlation are used, while in the xDH and…

We have explored the use of range separation as a possible avenue for further improvement on our revDSD minimally empirical double hybrid functionals. Such $\omega$DSD functionals encompass the XYG3 type of double hybrid (i.e., xDSD) as a…

We study the accuracy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) for warm- and hot-dense matter (WDM and HDM). Specifically, considering a wide range of systems, we perform accurate ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with…

Screened range-separated hybrid (SRSH) functionals within generalized Kohn-Sham density functional theory (GKS-DFT) have been shown to restore a general $1/(r\varepsilon)$ asymptotic decay of the electrostatic interaction in dielectric…

While the inclusion of the nonlocal correlation in fifth rung "double hybrid" functionals is definitely beneficial, one might rightfully ask whether its evaluation in the basis of Kohn-Sham (KS) orbitals has additional value compared to the…

The density functional theory (DFT) approximations that are the most accurate for the calculation of band gap of bulk materials are hybrid functionals like HSE06, the MBJ potential, and the GLLB-SC potential. More recently, generalized…

Kohn-Sham spin-density functional theory provides an efficient and accurate model to study electron-electron interaction effects in quantum dots, but its application to large systems is a challenge. An efficient algorithm for the…

We propose a way to improve energy density functionals (EDFs) in the density functional theory based on the combination of the inverse Kohn--Sham method and the density functional perturbation theory. Difference between the known EDF and…

Density-functional theory for superfluid systems is developed in the framework of the functional renormalization group based on the effective action formalism. We introduce the effective action for the particle-number and nonlocal pairing…

The key feature of nonlocal kinetic energy functionals is their ability to reduce to the Thomas-Fermi functional in the regions of high density and to the von Weizs\"acker functional in the region of low density/high density gradient. This…

We combine a regularized variant of the strongly constrained and appropriately normed semilocal density functional [J. Sun, A. Ruzsinszky, and J. P. Perdew, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036402 (2015)] with the latest generation semi-classical…

We examine the application of the recently developed dual basis methods of Head-Gordon and co-workers to double hybrid density functional computations. Using the B2-PLYP, B2GP-PLYP, DSD-BLYP and DSD-PBEP86 density functionals, we assess the…

A range-separated double-hybrid (RSDH) scheme which generalizes the usual range-separated hybrids and double hybrids is developed. This scheme consistently uses a two-parameter Coulomb-attenuating-method (CAM)-like decomposition of the…

Double hybrid (DH) density functionals are amongst the most accurate density functional approximations developed so far, largely due to incorporation of correlation effects from unoccupied orbitals via second order perturbation theory…

We present recent developments of the NTChem program for performing large scale hybrid Density Functional Theory calculations on the supercomputer Fugaku. We combine these developments with our recently proposed Complexity Reduction…

From the perspective of perturbation theory, we propose a systematic procedure for the evaluation of the derivative discontinuity (DD) of the exchange-correlation energy functional in Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT), wherein…

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…

We propose a long-range corrected hybrid meta-GGA functional, based on a global hybrid meta-GGA functional, M05 [Y. Zhao, N. E. Schultz, and D. G. Truhlar, J. Chem. Phys. 123, 161103 (2005)], and empirical atom-atom dispersion corrections.…