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Density Functional Theory (DFT) is widely used for first-principles simulations in chemistry and materials science, but its computational cost remains a key limitation for large systems. Motivated by recent advances in ML-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-19 Rakshit Kumar Singh , Aryan Amit Barsainyan , Bharath Ramsundar

The widespread use of (generalized) Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) lies in the fact that hierarchical sets of approximations of the exchange-correlation (XC) energy functional can be designed, offering versatile choices to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-31 Igor Ying Zhang , Xinguo Ren

We report a local, weight-dependent correlation density-functional approximation that incorporates information about both ground and excited states in the context of density-functional theory for ensembles (eDFT). This density-functional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Pierre-François Loos , Emmanuel Fromager

The systematic underestimation of band gaps is one of the most fundamental challenges in semilocal density functional theory (DFT). In addition to hindering the application of DFT to predicting electronic properties, the band gap problem is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Kyle Bystrom , Stefano Falletta , Boris Kozinsky

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

Density functional theory (DFT) is routinely employed in material science and in quantum chemistry to simulate weakly correlated electronic systems. Recently, deep learning (DL) techniques have been adopted to develop promising functionals…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-02 Emanuele Costa , Rosario Fazio , Sebastiano Pilati

Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) has been traditionally solved by the Self-Consistent Field (SCF) method. Behind the SCF loop is the physics intuition of solving a system of non-interactive single-electron wave functions under…

For the large and chemically diverse GMTKN55 benchmark suite, we have studied the performance of density-corrected density functional theory (HF-DFT), compared to self-consistent DFT, for several pure and hybrid GGA and meta-GGA…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Golokesh Santra , Jan M. L. Martin

Linear-scaling implementations of density functional theory (DFT) reach their intended efficiency regime only when applied to systems having a physical size larger than the range of their Kohn-Sham density matrix (DM). This causes a problem…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Marcel David Fabian , Ben Shpiro , Eran Rabani , Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-01-17 Jeng-Da Chai , Po-Ta Chen

Density functional theory is the workhorse of modern electronic structure calculations, with wide-ranging applications in chemistry, physics, materials science, and machine learning. At its heart lies the exchange-correlation functional, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Fabien Tran , Susi Lehtola , Stefano Pittalis , Miguel A. L. Marques

We assess the accuracy of common hybrid exchange-correlation (XC) functionals (PBE0, PBE0-1/3, HSE06, HSE03, and B3LYP) within Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) for the harmonically perturbed electron gas at parameters relevant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Zhandos A. Moldabekov , Mani Lokamani , Jan Vorberger , Attila Cangi , Tobias Dornheim

Standard flavors of density-functional theory (DFT) calculations are known to fail in describing anions, due to large self-interaction errors. The problem may be circumvented by using localized basis sets of reduced size, leaving no…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-23 Francesco Nattino , Céline Dupont , Nicola Marzari , Oliviero Andreussi

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-31 Xuecheng Shao , Wenhui Mi , Michele Pavanello

We argue that any general mathematical measure of density error, no matter how reasonable, is too arbitrary to be of universal use. However the energy functional itself provides a universal relevant measure of density errors. For the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Eunji Sim , Suhwan Song , Kieron Burke

Density functional theory (DFT) has transformed our ability to investigate and understand electronic ground states. In its original formulation, however, DFT is not suited to addressing (e.g.) degenerate ground states, mixed states with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Tim Gould , Leeor Kronik , Stefano Pittalis

Density functional calculations can fail for want of an accurate exchange-correlation approximation. The energy can instead be extracted from a sequence of density functional calculations of conditional probabilities (CP-DFT). Simple CP…

We apply the renormalized singles with correlation (RSc) Green's function in the $GW$ approximation to calculate accurate quasiparticle (QP) energies and orbitals. The RSc Green's function includes all orders of singles contributions from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Jiachen Li , Weitao Yang

Semilocal density-functional approximations (DFAs), including the state-of-the-art SCAN functional, are plagued by the self-interaction error (SIE). While this error is explicitly defined only for one-electron systems, it has inspired the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-23 Sheng Bi , Christian Carbogno , Igor Ying Zhang , Matthias Scheffler

We present an improved method to calculate defect formation energies that overcomes the band-gap problem of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT) and reduces the self-interaction error of the local-density approximation (LDA) to DFT. We…

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