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ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 59, Issue -, Pages 261-290Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physchem.59.032607.093528
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density functional theory; excited states; electron correlation; embedded cluster models
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Calculations of the electronic structure of solids began decades ago, but only recently have solid-state quantum techniques become sufficiently reliable that their application is nearly as routine as quantum chemistry is for molecules. We aim to introduce chemists to the pros and cons of first-principles methods that can provide atomic-scale insight into the properties and chemistry of bulk materials, interfaces, and nanostructures. The techniques we review include the ubiquitous density functional theory (DFT), which is often sufficient, especially for metals; extensions such as DFT + U and hybrid DFT, which incorporate exact exchange to rid DFT of its spurious self-interactions (critical for some semiconductors and strongly correlated materials); many-body Green's function (GW and Bethe-Salpeter) methods for excited states; quantum Monte Carlo, in principle an exact theory but for which forces (hence structure optimization and dynamics) are problematic; and embedding theories that locally refine the quantum treatment to improve accuracy.
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