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Delocalization error prevents density functional theory (DFT) from reaching its full potential, causing problems like systematically underestimated band gaps and misaligned energy levels at interfaces. We introduce lrLOSC to correct…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-29 Jacob Z. Williams , Weitao Yang

Despite the great success Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) has achieved, the delocalization error remains a major challenge for commonly used density functional approximations (DFAs), resulting in systematic errors in ionization…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Yichen Fan , Jincheng Yu , Jiayi Du , Weitao Yang

The delocalization error of popular density functional approximations (DFAs) leads to diversified problems in present-day density functional theory calculations. For achieving a universal elimination of delocalization error, we develop a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Chen Li , Xiao Zheng , Neil Qiang Su , Weitao Yang

Density functional theory offers accurate structure prediction at acceptable computational cost, but commonly used approximations suffer from delocalization error; this results in inaccurate predictions of quantities such as energy band…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-17 Aaron Mahler , Jacob Z. Williams , Neil Qiang Su , Weitao Yang

The recently developed localized orbital scaling correction (LOSC) method shows the ability to systematically and size-consistently reduce the delocalization error existing in conventional density functional approximations (DFAs). Applying…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-19 Yuncai Mei , Zehua Chen , Weitao Yang

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a pivotal method within quantum chemistry and materials science, with its core involving the construction and solution of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. Despite its importance, the application of DFT is…

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) is a promising method for large-scale quantum mechanics simulation as it provides a good balance of accuracy and computational cost. Its applicability to large-scale simulations has been aided…

We develop a second order correction to commonly used density functional approximations (DFA) to eliminate the systematic delocalization error. The method, based on the previously developed global scaling correction (GSC), is an exact…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 Yuncai Mei , Zehua Chen , Weitao Yang

The stochastic density functional theory (DFT) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 106402 (2013)] is a valuable linear scaling approach to Kohn-Sham DFT that does not rely on the sparsity of the density matrix. Linear (and often sub-linear) scaling is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Ming Chen , Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser , Eran Rabani

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

Locality of compact one-electron orbitals expanded strictly in terms of local subsets of basis functions can be exploited in density functional theory (DFT) to achieve linear growth of computation time with systems size, crucial in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Yifei Shi , Jessica Karaguesian , Rustam Z. Khaliullin

Approximate functionals used in practical density functional theory (DFT) deviate from the piecewise linear behavior of the exact functional for fractional charges. This deviation causes excess charge delocalization, which leads to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Diptarka Hait , Martin Head-Gordon

We show that a lattice formulation of density-functional theory (DFT), guided by renormalization-group concepts, can be used to obtain numerical predictions of energy gaps, spin-density profiles, critical exponents, sound velocities,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Francisco C. Alcaraz , Klaus Capelle

Delocalization errors, such as charge-transfer and some self-interaction errors, plague computationally-efficient and otherwise-accurate density functional approximations (DFAs). Evaluating a semi-local DFA non-self-consistently on the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Aaron D. Kaplan , Chandra Shahi , Pradeep Bhetwal , Raj K. Sah , John P. Perdew

Approximate semi-local density functional theory (DFT) is known to underestimate surface formation energies yet paradoxically overbind adsorbates on catalytic transition-metal oxide surfaces due to delocalization error. The low-cost DFT+U…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-24 Akash Bajaj , Heather J. Kulik

Orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) is a quantum chemistry formulation that has a lower cost scaling than the prevailing Kohn-Sham DFT, which is increasingly desired for contemporary molecular research. However, its accuracy is…

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Density functional approximations (DFAs) suffer from delocalization error, which limits their accuracy in predicting electron affinities (EAs), ionization potentials (IPs), and quasiparticle energies. In this work, we present a theoretical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Zipeng An , Xiaolong Yang , Xiao Zheng , Weitao Yang

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Min-Cheol Kim , Eunji Sim , Kieron Burke

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) constitutes a computationally highly effective tool for modeling electronic structures of systems ranging from room-temperature materials to warm dense matter. Its accuracy critically depends…

While density functional theory (DFT) is widely applied for its combination of cost and accuracy, corrections (e.g., DFT+U) that improve it are often needed to tackle correlated transition-metal chemistry. In principle, the functional form…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-12 Akash Bajaj , Heather J. Kulik
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