Assessing the accuracy of the van der Waals density functionals for rare-gas and small molecular systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 91 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Callsen ◽  
Ikutaro Hamada
Keyword(s):  
Van Der Waals ◽  
Rare Gas ◽  
Density Functionals ◽  
Molecular Systems

scholarly journals Benchmarking Several van der Waals Dispersion Approaches for the Description of Intermolecular Interactions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Claudot ◽  
Won June Kim ◽  
Anant Dixit ◽  
Hyungjun Kim ◽  
Tim Gould ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Van Der Waals ◽  
Chem Phys ◽  
Binding Energies ◽  
Van Der Waals Interactions ◽  
Density Functionals ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Blind Test ◽  
Molecular Systems ◽  
Test Sets ◽  
The Many

Seven methods, including three van der Waals density functionals (vdW-DFs) and four different variants of the Tkatchenko-Scheffler (TS) methods, are tested on the A24, L7, and Taylor <i>et al.</i>'s "blind" test sets. It is found that for these systems, the vdW-DFs perform better that the TS methods. In particular, the vdW-DF-cx functional gives binding energies that are the closest to the reference values, while the many body correction of TS does not always lead to an improvement in the description of molecular systems. In light of these results, several directions for further improvements to describe van der Waals interactions are discussed.<br><br>Published as <i>J. Chem. Phys.</i> <b>148</b>, 064112 (2018)<br>

scholarly journals Benchmarking Several van der Waals Dispersion Approaches for the Description of Intermolecular Interactions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Claudot ◽  
Won June Kim ◽  
Anant Dixit ◽  
Hyungjun Kim ◽  
Tim Gould ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intermolecular Interactions ◽  
Van Der Waals ◽  
Binding Energies ◽  
Van Der Waals Interactions ◽  
Density Functionals ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Blind Test ◽  
Molecular Systems ◽  
Test Sets ◽  
The Many

Seven methods, including three van der Waals density functionals (vdW-DFs) and four different variants of the Tkatchenko-Scheffler (TS) methods, are tested on the A24, L7, and Taylor <i>et al.</i>'s "blind" test sets. It is found that for these systems, the vdW-DFs perform better that the TS methods. In particular, the vdW-DF-cx functional gives binding energies that are the closest to the reference values, while the many body correction of TS does not always lead to an improvement in the description of molecular systems. In light of these results, several directions for further improvements to describe van der Waals interactions are discussed.<br>

scholarly journals Evaluation of van der Waals density functionals for layered materials

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik ◽  
Tim Gould ◽  
Catherine Stampfl ◽  
Michael J. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Van Der Waals ◽  
Layered Materials ◽  
Density Functionals
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