to assess the performance of typical DFT methods, employing GGA, hybrid, and long-range
corrected exchange-correlation functionals. It appears that both the BLYP and B3LYP XC
functionals behave poorly and either strongly underestimate or overestimate the β contrasts.
On the other hand, the performance of the LC-BLYP functional is better, though the
improvement over HF is not systematic.