The predictive power of exact constraints and appropriate norms in density functional theory

AD Kaplan, M Levy, JP Perdew - Annual Review of Physical …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Ground-state Kohn-Sham density functional theory provides, in principle, the exact ground-
state energy and electronic spin densities of real interacting electrons in a static external …

[HTML][HTML] Semilocal exchange-correlation potentials for solid-state calculations: Current status and future directions

F Tran, J Doumont, L Kalantari, AW Huran… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory (DFT) is a very efficient method for calculating
various properties of solids as, for instance, the total energy, the electron density, or the …

Extensive Benchmarking of DFT+U Calculations for Predicting Band Gaps

NE Kirchner-Hall, W Zhao, Y Xiong, I Timrov, I Dabo - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accurate computational predictions of band gaps are of practical importance to the modeling
and development of semiconductor technologies, such as (opto) electronic devices and …

Completing density functional theory by machine learning hidden messages from molecules

R Nagai, R Akashi, O Sugino - npj Computational Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Kohn–Sham density functional theory (DFT) is the basis of modern computational
approaches to electronic structures. Their accuracy heavily relies on the exchange …

Performance comparison of and SCAN metaGGA density functionals for solid materials via an automated, high-throughput computational workflow

R Kingsbury, AS Gupta, CJ Bartel, JM Munro… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Computational materials discovery efforts utilize hundreds or thousands of density functional
theory calculations to predict material properties. Historically, such efforts have performed …

Mott gapping in perovskites without Mott-Hubbard interelectronic repulsion energy U

J Varignon, M Bibes, A Zunger - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
The existence of band gaps in Mott insulators such as perovskite oxides with partially filled
3d shells has been traditionally explained in terms of strong, dynamic interelectronic …

Applicability of the strongly constrained and appropriately normed density functional to transition-metal magnetism

Y Fu, DJ Singh - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
We find that the recently developed self-consistent and appropriately normed meta-
generalized gradient approximation, which has been found to provide highly accurate …

The role of decomposition reactions in assessing first-principles predictions of solid stability

CJ Bartel, AW Weimer, S Lany, CB Musgrave… - npj Computational …, 2019 - nature.com
The performance of density functional theory approximations for predicting materials
thermodynamics is typically assessed by comparing calculated and experimentally …

Superconductivity in antiperovskites

N Hoffmann, TFT Cerqueira, J Schmidt… - NPJ Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
We present a comprehensive theoretical study of conventional superconductivity in cubic
antiperovskites materials with composition XYZ3 where X and Z are metals, and Y is H, B, C …

Symmetry-breaking polymorphous descriptions for correlated materials without interelectronic U

Y Zhang, J Furness, R Zhang, Z Wang, A Zunger, J Sun - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Correlated materials with open-shell d and f ions having degenerate band-edge states show
a rich variety of interesting properties ranging from metal-insulator transition to …