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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…

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Subsystem Density-Functional Theory (DFT) is an emerging technique for calculating the electronic structure of complex molecular and condensed phase systems. In this topical review, we focus on some recent advances in this field related to…

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The homogeneous electron gas (HEG) is a key ingredient in the construction of most exchange-correlation functionals of density-functional theory. Often, the energy of the HEG is parameterized as a function of its spin density $n$, leading…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Susi Lehtola , Miguel A. L. Marques

We present a new nonempirical density functional generalized gradient approximation (GGA) that gives significant improvements for lattice constants, crystal structures, and metal surface energies over the most popular Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhigang Wu , Ronald E. Cohen

We extend the previously proposed one-parameter double-hybrid density-functional theory [K. Sharkas, J. Toulouse, and A. Savin, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 064113 (2011)] to meta-generalized-gradient-approximation (meta-GGA) exchange-correlation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-02-27 Sidi Ould Souvi , Kamal Sharkas , Julien Toulouse

F.E. Harris has been a significant partner in our work on orbital-free density functional approximations for use in ab initio molecular dynamics. Here we mention briefly the essential progress on single-point functionals since our original…

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A procedure for removing explicit orbital dependence from meta-generalized-gradient approximation (mGGA) exchange-correlation functionals by converting them into Laplacian-dependent functionals recently was developed by us and shown to be…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-03 Daniel Mejia-Rodriguez , S. B. Trickey

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for atomistic simulations. However, its reach stays limited due to several limitations such as lack of accurate exchange-correlation functional, requirement of costly O(N 3) diagonalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Namrata Manglani , Samrit Kumar Maity , Shashank Sharma , Soham Phulare , Sanjay Wandhekar

In density functional theory (DFT), exact constraints, fundamental mathematical properties of the exchange-correlation (XC) energy and its underlying XC hole, along with paradigm systems such as the uniform electron gas and the hydrogen…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 Yan Oueis , Akilan Ramasamy , James W. Furness , Jamin Kidd , Timo Lebeda , Jianwei Sun

Due to efficient scaling with electron number N, density functional theory (DFT) is widely used for studies of large molecules and solids. Restriction of an exact mean-field theory to local potential functions has recently been questioned.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Robert K. Nesbet

This review is devoted to generalization of dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) for strongly correlated electronic systems towards the account of different types of additional interactions, necessary for correct physical description of many…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 E. Z. Kuchinskii , I. A. Nekrasov , M. V. Sadovskii

We study the electronic structure of a spherical jellium in the presence of a central Gaussian impurity. We test how well the resulting inhomogeneity effects beyond spherical jellium are reproduced by several approximations of density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Michal Bajdich , Paul R. C. Kent , Jeongnim Kim , Fernando A. Reboredo

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Vidushi Sharma , Lee A. Collins , Alexander J. White

Density functional theory (DFT) stands as a cornerstone method in computational quantum chemistry and materials science due to its remarkable versatility and scalability. Yet, it suffers from limitations in accuracy, particularly when…

The solution of the mean spherical approximation (MSA) integral equation for isotropic multicomponent dipolar hard sphere fluids without external fields is used to construct a density functional theory (DFT), which includes external fields,…

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We give an elementary introduction to a recent diagrammatic extension of dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) coined dynamical vertex approximation (D$\Gamma$A). This approach contains the important local correlations of DMFT, giving, among…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-03-18 K. Held , A. A. Katanin , A. Toschi

We report an efficient technique to treat density functionals of the meta-generalized gradient approximation (mGGA) class in conjunction with density fitting of Coulomb terms (DF-J) and exchange-correlation terms (DF-X). While the kinetic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Alyssa V. Bienvenu , Gerald Knizia

To explore the applicability of orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) in nuclear physics, we perform a systematic benchmark of 36 one-point kinetic energy density functionals, which are originally developed for electron systems in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Tian Shuai Shang , Jian Li , Haozhao Liang , Xinhui Wu , Cheng Ma , Wenhui Mi , Xuecheng Shao , Yanchao Wang

The description of realistic strongly correlated systems has recently advanced through the combination of density functional theory in the local density approximation (LDA) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). This LDA+DMFT method is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Amadon , F. Lechermann , A. Georges , F. Jollet , T. O. Wehling , A. I. Lichtenstein

For orbital-free {\it ab initio} molecular dynamics, especially on systems in extreme thermodynamic conditions, we provide the first pseudo-potential-adapted generalized gradient approximation (GGA) functional for the non-interacting free…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Kai Luo , Valentin V. Karasiev , S. B. Trickey