Thirty years of density functional theory in computational chemistry: an overview and extensive assessment of 200 density functionals

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - Molecular physics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In the past 30 years, Kohn–Sham density functional theory has emerged as the most popular
electronic structure method in computational chemistry. To assess the ever-increasing …

First-principles models for van der Waals interactions in molecules and materials: Concepts, theory, and applications

J Hermann, RA DiStasio Jr, A Tkatchenko - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Noncovalent van der Waals (vdW) or dispersion forces are ubiquitous in nature and
influence the structure, stability, dynamics, and function of molecules and materials …

MN15: A Kohn–Sham global-hybrid exchange–correlation density functional with broad accuracy for multi-reference and single-reference systems and noncovalent …

SY Haoyu, X He, SL Li, DG Truhlar - Chemical science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Kohn–Sham density functionals are widely used; however, no currently available exchange–
correlation functional can predict all chemical properties with chemical accuracy. Here we …

LEVEL: A computer program for solving the radial Schrödinger equation for bound and quasibound levels

RJ Le Roy - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper describes program LEVEL, which can solve the radial or one-dimensional
Schrödinger equation and automatically locate either all of, or a selected number of, the …

[HTML][HTML] ωB97M-V: A combinatorially optimized, range-separated hybrid, meta-GGA density functional with VV10 nonlocal correlation

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
A combinatorially optimized, range-separated hybrid, meta-GGA density functional with
VV10 nonlocal correlation is presented. The final 12-parameter functional form is selected …

How accurate are the Minnesota density functionals for noncovalent interactions, isomerization energies, thermochemistry, and barrier heights involving molecules …

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The 14 Minnesota density functionals published between the years 2005 and early 2016 are
benchmarked on a comprehensive database of 4986 data points (84 data sets) involving …

MN15-L: A new local exchange-correlation functional for Kohn–Sham density functional theory with broad accuracy for atoms, molecules, and solids

HS Yu, X He, DG Truhlar - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Kohn–Sham density functional theory is widely used for applications of electronic structure
theory in chemistry, materials science, and condensed-matter physics, but the accuracy …

ωB97X-V: A 10-parameter, range-separated hybrid, generalized gradient approximation density functional with nonlocal correlation, designed by a survival-of-the …

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A 10-parameter, range-separated hybrid (RSH), generalized gradient approximation (GGA)
density functional with nonlocal correlation (VV10) is presented. Instead of truncating the …

Perspective: Advances and challenges in treating van der Waals dispersion forces in density functional theory

J Klimeš, A Michaelides - The Journal of chemical physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Electron dispersion forces play a crucial role in determining the structure and properties of
biomolecules, molecular crystals, and many other systems. However, an accurate …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the genome of meta-generalized gradient approximation density functionals: The search for B97M-V

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - The Journal of chemical physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
A meta-generalized gradient approximation density functional paired with the VV10 nonlocal
correlation functional is presented. The functional form is selected from more than 10 10 …